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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
Juan Pablo Varillas
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →4 meetings31February 20, 2023 — October 28, 2024View Carlos Alcaraz × Nicolas Jarry →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Jarry
4 meetings31March 6, 2015 — February 3, 2024View Nicolas Jarry × Juan Pablo Varillas →03 DestinationOpen career →Juan Pablo Varillas
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- DestinationJuan Pablo Varillas
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- DestinationJuan Pablo Varillas
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationJuan Pablo Varillas
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAlejandro Tabilo
- DestinationJuan Pablo Varillas
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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