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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
Cleeve Harper
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 meeting10June 30, 2025View Jordan Thompson × Vit Kopriva →03 BridgeOpen career →Vit Kopriva
1 meeting10February 3, 2024View Vit Kopriva × Orel Kimhi →04 BridgeOpen career →Orel Kimhi
1 meeting01September 12, 2025View Orel Kimhi × Cleeve Harper →05 DestinationOpen career →Cleeve Harper
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
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeVit Kopriva
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeLiam Draxl
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeVit Kopriva
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBotic van de Zandschulp
- BridgeVit Kopriva
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
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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