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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
Phuong Van Nguyen
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
2 meetings11January 2, 2017 — August 2, 2021View Jordan Thompson × Elias Ymer →03 BridgeOpen career →Elias Ymer
1 meeting10April 3, 2023View Elias Ymer × Adam Moundir →04 BridgeOpen career →Adam Moundir
1 meeting10March 6, 2020View Adam Moundir × Phuong Van Nguyen →05 DestinationOpen career →Phuong Van Nguyen
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMackenzie McDonald
- BridgeElias Ymer
- BridgeAdam Moundir
- DestinationPhuong Van Nguyen
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMackenzie McDonald
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeAdam Moundir
- DestinationPhuong Van Nguyen
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeAdam Moundir
- DestinationPhuong Van Nguyen
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeAdam Moundir
- DestinationPhuong Van Nguyen
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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