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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 Tavkhelidze
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 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
3 meetings21May 9, 2010 — December 31, 2012View Feliciano Lopez × Lukasz Kubot →03 BridgeOpen career →Lukasz Kubot
1 meeting10July 21, 2006View Lukasz Kubot × Lado Chikhladze →04 BridgeOpen career →Lado Chikhladze
1 meeting01July 16, 2004View Lado Chikhladze × Omar Hedayet →05 BridgeOpen career →Omar Hedayet
1 meeting10July 10, 2009View Omar Hedayet × Alexander Tavkhelidze →06 DestinationOpen career →Alexander Tavkhelidze
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeWesley Moodie
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeWesley Moodie
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndy Murray
- BridgeWesley Moodie
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAttila Balazs
- BridgeTodor Enev
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
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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