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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 Mills
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 4, 1994View Anthony Mills × Gwinyai Tongoona →02 BridgeOpen career →Gwinyai Tongoona
1 meeting01July 11, 2003View Gwinyai Tongoona × Noam Okun →03 BridgeOpen career →Noam Okun
1 meeting01June 20, 2005View Noam Okun × Gael Monfils →04 BridgeOpen career →Gael Monfils
4 meetings13March 7, 2022 — October 2, 2024View Gael Monfils × Carlos Alcaraz →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAnthony Mills
- BridgeGwinyai Tongoona
- BridgeNoam Okun
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAnthony Mills
- BridgeGwinyai Tongoona
- BridgeAlexandros Jakupovic
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAnthony Mills
- BridgeGwinyai Tongoona
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAnthony Mills
- BridgeGwinyai Tongoona
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- 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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