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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
Denys Molchanov
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 →2 meetings20April 17, 2023 — January 13, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Nuno Borges →02 BridgeOpen career →Nuno Borges
1 meeting10February 1, 2025View Nuno Borges × Benjamin Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Balleret
1 meeting01February 10, 2012View Benjamin Balleret × Denys Molchanov →04 DestinationOpen career →Denys Molchanov
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
- BridgeBenjamin Balleret
- DestinationDenys Molchanov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAttila Balazs
- BridgeSergis Kyratzis
- DestinationDenys Molchanov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndrej Martin
- BridgeMarkus Eriksson
- DestinationDenys Molchanov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeDavid Goffin
- BridgeMarkus Eriksson
- DestinationDenys Molchanov
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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