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Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Anthony Jackie Tang
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10February 3, 2018View Anthony Jackie Tang × Shahin Khaledan →02 BridgeOpen career →Shahin Khaledan
1 meeting01February 3, 2017View Shahin Khaledan × Aqeel Khan →03 BridgeOpen career →Aqeel Khan
1 meeting10February 2, 2018View Aqeel Khan × Seong Chan Hong →04 BridgeOpen career →Seong Chan Hong
1 meeting10July 29, 2024View Seong Chan Hong × Karen Khachanov →05 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
6 meetings06May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Karen Khachanov × Carlos Alcaraz →06 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAnthony Jackie Tang
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeSeong Chan Hong
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAnthony Jackie Tang
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeSeong Chan Hong
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAnthony Jackie Tang
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeSeong Chan Hong
- BridgeZizou Bergs
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAnthony Jackie Tang
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeSeong Chan Hong
- BridgeAdam Walton
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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