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Eras

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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Haibibi Bouchaib

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

2,949 players examined
  1. 1 meeting10April 5, 2021
    View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →
  2. 2 meetings02May 5, 2003 — May 12, 2003
    View Feliciano Lopez × Wayne Ferreira →
  3. 1 meeting10April 20, 1992
    View Wayne Ferreira × Bjorn Borg →
  4. 1 meeting10March 17, 1978
    View Bjorn Borg × Michael Hickey →
  5. 1 meeting10May 9, 1969
    View Michael Hickey × Jean Neuman →
  6. 1 meeting01November 10, 1972
    View Jean Neuman × Haibibi Bouchaib →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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.

Reverse the route →