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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
Francisco Cabello
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
2 meetings02May 5, 2003 — May 12, 2003View Feliciano Lopez × Wayne Ferreira →03 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
1 meeting01April 7, 1997View Wayne Ferreira × Francisco Cabello →04 DestinationOpen career →Francisco Cabello
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationFrancisco Cabello
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeStefan Koubek
- DestinationFrancisco Cabello
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAlberto Martin
- DestinationFrancisco Cabello
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationFrancisco Cabello
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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