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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
Ljuben Vodeb
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
1 meeting10April 25, 1988View Andre Agassi × Jimmy Brown →04 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Brown
2 meetings20September 20, 1982 — November 14, 1983View Jimmy Brown × Georges Goven →05 BridgeOpen career →Georges Goven
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Georges Goven × Andras Szikszay →06 BridgeOpen career →Andras Szikszay
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Andras Szikszay × Ljuben Vodeb →07 DestinationOpen career →Ljuben Vodeb
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeTeimuraz Kakulia
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- DestinationLjuben Vodeb
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- DestinationLjuben Vodeb
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- DestinationLjuben Vodeb
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeBarry Phillips Moore
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- DestinationLjuben Vodeb
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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