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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
Kwasi Ahenkora
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 →1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting10June 6, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Kenneth Carlsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Kenneth Carlsen
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Kenneth Carlsen × Walid Jallali →04 BridgeOpen career →Walid Jallali
1 meeting10July 11, 2003View Walid Jallali × Kwasi Ahenkora →05 DestinationOpen career →Kwasi Ahenkora
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
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeKonstantinos Economidis
- BridgeTsolak Gevorgyan
- DestinationKwasi Ahenkora
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMikael Ymer
- BridgeGastao Elias
- BridgeWalid Jallali
- DestinationKwasi Ahenkora
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeWalid Jallali
- DestinationKwasi Ahenkora
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeWalid Jallali
- DestinationKwasi Ahenkora
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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