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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
Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Adrian Bodmer
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 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
2 meetings11March 6, 2017 — August 31, 2020View Jordan Thompson × Mikhail Kukushkin →03 BridgeOpen career →Mikhail Kukushkin
1 meeting10February 2, 2018View Mikhail Kukushkin × Adrian Bodmer →04 DestinationOpen career →Adrian Bodmer
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeMikhail Kukushkin
- DestinationAdrian Bodmer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeMikhail Kukushkin
- DestinationAdrian Bodmer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeMikhail Kukushkin
- DestinationAdrian Bodmer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBotic van de Zandschulp
- BridgeMikhail Kukushkin
- DestinationAdrian Bodmer
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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