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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
Blaz Trupej
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meeting01April 29, 1994View Blaz Trupej × Tasos Bavelas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tasos Bavelas
1 meeting01October 5, 1992View Tasos Bavelas × Sergi Bruguera →03 BridgeOpen career →Sergi Bruguera
1 meeting10April 24, 2000View Sergi Bruguera × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginBlaz Trupej
- BridgeFrank Ofori
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginBlaz Trupej
- BridgeChristian Ruud
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginBlaz Trupej
- BridgeChristian Ruud
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginBlaz Trupej
- BridgeChristian Ruud
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
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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