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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
Riccardo Bellotti
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 →2 meetings20May 29, 2023 — March 5, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Denis Shapovalov →02 BridgeOpen career →Denis Shapovalov
2 meetings20August 7, 2017 — January 8, 2018View Denis Shapovalov × Rogerio Dutra Silva →03 BridgeOpen career →Rogerio Dutra Silva
1 meeting10May 1, 2017View Rogerio Dutra Silva × Riccardo Bellotti →04 DestinationOpen career →Riccardo Bellotti
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
- BridgeCasper Ruud
- BridgeRogerio Dutra Silva
- DestinationRiccardo Bellotti
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeRogerio Dutra Silva
- DestinationRiccardo Bellotti
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeRogerio Dutra Silva
- DestinationRiccardo Bellotti
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- BridgeRogerio Dutra Silva
- DestinationRiccardo Bellotti
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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