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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
Christian Bergstrom
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 meeting01August 11, 2003View Feliciano Lopez × Todd Martin →03 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
2 meetings20August 17, 1992 — May 2, 1994View Todd Martin × Christian Bergstrom →04 DestinationOpen career →Christian Bergstrom
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
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- DestinationChristian Bergstrom
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationChristian Bergstrom
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationChristian Bergstrom
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationChristian Bergstrom
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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