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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
Michiel Schapers
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 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
2 meetings20April 13, 1987 — March 5, 1990View Andre Agassi × Michiel Schapers →04 DestinationOpen career →Michiel Schapers
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationMichiel Schapers
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- DestinationMichiel Schapers
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationMichiel Schapers
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- DestinationMichiel Schapers
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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