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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
Anthony Jackie Tang
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 →6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting01July 29, 2024View Karen Khachanov × Seong Chan Hong →03 BridgeOpen career →Seong Chan Hong
1 meeting01February 2, 2018View Seong Chan Hong × Aqeel Khan →04 BridgeOpen career →Aqeel Khan
1 meeting10February 3, 2017View Aqeel Khan × Shahin Khaledan →05 BridgeOpen career →Shahin Khaledan
1 meeting01February 3, 2018View Shahin Khaledan × Anthony Jackie Tang →06 DestinationOpen career →Anthony Jackie Tang
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
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeDi Wu
- BridgeMahammad Abid
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeDi Wu
- BridgeMahammad Abid
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- BridgeSeong Chan Hong
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- BridgeJeson Patrombon
- BridgeCyril Jacobe
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
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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