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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
Alexander Blom
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 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01May 24, 2004View Feliciano Lopez × Gustavo Kuerten →03 BridgeOpen career →Gustavo Kuerten
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Gustavo Kuerten × Alexander Blom →04 DestinationOpen career →Alexander Blom
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
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeRicardo Mello
- DestinationAlexander Blom
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeRicardo Mello
- DestinationAlexander Blom
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- DestinationAlexander Blom
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeRicardo Mello
- DestinationAlexander Blom
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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