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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
Henrik Andersson
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 →2 meetings20March 7, 2022 — August 15, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Mackenzie McDonald →02 BridgeOpen career →Mackenzie McDonald
1 meeting10February 6, 2023View Mackenzie McDonald × Fernando Verdasco →03 BridgeOpen career →Fernando Verdasco
1 meeting10July 7, 2008View Fernando Verdasco × Bjorn Rehnquist →04 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Rehnquist
1 meeting10July 7, 2003View Bjorn Rehnquist × Henrik Andersson →05 DestinationOpen career →Henrik Andersson
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
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- BridgeBjorn Rehnquist
- DestinationHenrik Andersson
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgeBjorn Rehnquist
- DestinationHenrik Andersson
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- BridgeBjorn Rehnquist
- DestinationHenrik Andersson
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- BridgeBjorn Rehnquist
- DestinationHenrik Andersson
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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