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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
Rowland Phillips
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 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Max Purcell →02 BridgeOpen career →Max Purcell
1 meeting10January 8, 2024View Max Purcell × Kiranpal Pannu →03 BridgeOpen career →Kiranpal Pannu
1 meeting01February 1, 2025View Kiranpal Pannu × Rowland Phillips →04 DestinationOpen career →Rowland Phillips
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
- BridgeTallon Griekspoor
- BridgePetros Tsitsipas
- DestinationRowland Phillips
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- BridgeDarian King
- DestinationRowland Phillips
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeKiranpal Pannu
- DestinationRowland Phillips
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeDarian King
- DestinationRowland Phillips
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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