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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
Liova Ayite Ajavon
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 →1 meeting10May 29, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Flavio Cobolli →02 BridgeOpen career →Flavio Cobolli
1 meeting10January 2, 2023View Flavio Cobolli × Sasi Kumar Mukund →03 BridgeOpen career →Sasi Kumar Mukund
1 meeting10February 1, 2025View Sasi Kumar Mukund × Liova Ayite Ajavon →04 DestinationOpen career →Liova Ayite Ajavon
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTaro Daniel
- BridgeSasi Kumar Mukund
- DestinationLiova Ayite Ajavon
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeEthan Quinn
- BridgeSasi Kumar Mukund
- DestinationLiova Ayite Ajavon
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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