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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
Robert Trogolo
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 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
4 meetings31March 18, 2002 — April 25, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Alex Corretja →03 BridgeOpen career →Alex Corretja
1 meeting10August 24, 1992View Alex Corretja × Raul Antonio Viver →04 BridgeOpen career →Raul Antonio Viver
1 meeting01February 11, 1980View Raul Antonio Viver × Robert Trogolo →05 DestinationOpen career →Robert Trogolo
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeAlex Corretja
- BridgeRaul Antonio Viver
- DestinationRobert Trogolo
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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