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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
Krystian Pfeiffer
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 →6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting10March 6, 2017View Karen Khachanov × Tommy Robredo →03 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Robredo
1 meeting10July 23, 2001View Tommy Robredo × Krystian Pfeiffer →04 DestinationOpen career →Krystian Pfeiffer
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
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- DestinationKrystian Pfeiffer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- DestinationKrystian Pfeiffer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- DestinationKrystian Pfeiffer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- DestinationKrystian Pfeiffer
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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