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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
Bob Levine
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 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
5 meetings32November 30, 1988 — July 25, 1994View Andre Agassi × Jakob Hlasek →04 BridgeOpen career →Jakob Hlasek
1 meeting10September 16, 1985View Jakob Hlasek × Christoph Meyer →05 BridgeOpen career →Christoph Meyer
1 meeting10August 9, 1970View Christoph Meyer × Bob Levine →06 DestinationOpen career →Bob Levine
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
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJohan Carlsson
- BridgeChristoph Meyer
- DestinationBob Levine
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeChristoph Meyer
- DestinationBob Levine
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeJuan Aguilera
- BridgeChristoph Meyer
- DestinationBob Levine
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeChristoph Meyer
- DestinationBob Levine
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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