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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
Devin Badenhorst
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 →6 meetings60August 30, 2021 — May 27, 2024View Carlos Alcaraz × Stefanos Tsitsipas →02 BridgeOpen career →Stefanos Tsitsipas
1 meeting10February 16, 2026View Stefanos Tsitsipas × Moez Echargui →03 BridgeOpen career →Moez Echargui
1 meeting10January 31, 2025View Moez Echargui × Oleksandr Ovcharenko →04 BridgeOpen career →Oleksandr Ovcharenko
1 meeting10February 7, 2026View Oleksandr Ovcharenko × Raphael Calzi →05 BridgeOpen career →Raphael Calzi
1 meeting10February 4, 2023View Raphael Calzi × Devin Badenhorst →06 DestinationOpen career →Devin Badenhorst
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
- BridgeEmil Ruusuvuori
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- BridgeRaphael Calzi
- DestinationDevin Badenhorst
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeValentin Vacherot
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- BridgeRaphael Calzi
- DestinationDevin Badenhorst
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeDaniel Evans
- BridgeMoez Echargui
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- BridgeRaphael Calzi
- DestinationDevin Badenhorst
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMoez Echargui
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- BridgeRaphael Calzi
- DestinationDevin Badenhorst
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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