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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
Matej Dodig
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 →4 meetings40June 17, 2024 — September 19, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Francisco Cerundolo →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Cerundolo
1 meeting10July 22, 2024View Francisco Cerundolo × Matej Dodig →03 DestinationOpen career →Matej Dodig
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNorbert Gombos
- DestinationMatej Dodig
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgePablo Carreno Busta
- DestinationMatej Dodig
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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