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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
Martin Damm
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 →8 meetings62August 8, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Tommy Paul →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Paul
1 meeting01March 18, 2024View Tommy Paul × Martin Damm →03 DestinationOpen career →Martin Damm
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
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- DestinationMartin Damm
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeArthur Rinderknech
- DestinationMartin Damm
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- DestinationMartin Damm
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeHubert Hurkacz
- DestinationMartin Damm
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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