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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
Christopher Eldon
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
1 meeting10July 18, 2016View Jordan Thompson × Victor Estrella →03 BridgeOpen career →Victor Estrella
1 meeting10September 18, 2009View Victor Estrella × Jose De Armas →04 BridgeOpen career →Jose De Armas
1 meeting10September 19, 2003View Jose De Armas × Christopher Eldon →05 DestinationOpen career →Christopher Eldon
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationChristopher Eldon
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- BridgeJose Hernandez
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationChristopher Eldon
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeJose Hernandez
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationChristopher Eldon
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationChristopher Eldon
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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