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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
Soong Jae Cho
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →4 meetings31October 25, 2021 — July 3, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Matteo Berrettini →02 BridgeOpen career →Matteo Berrettini
1 meeting10August 31, 2020View Matteo Berrettini × Go Soeda →03 BridgeOpen career →Go Soeda
2 meetings20February 8, 2008 — March 4, 2011View Go Soeda × Johnny Arcilla →04 BridgeOpen career →Johnny Arcilla
1 meeting10February 1, 2013View Johnny Arcilla × Issam Al Tawil →05 BridgeOpen career →Issam Al Tawil
1 meeting01March 4, 2011View Issam Al Tawil × Soong Jae Cho →06 DestinationOpen career →Soong Jae Cho
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeSoon Woo Kwon
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeNaser Al Obaidly
- BridgeIssam Al Tawil
- DestinationSoong Jae Cho
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeSoon Woo Kwon
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeYong Kyu Lim
- BridgeIssam Al Tawil
- DestinationSoong Jae Cho
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeSoon Woo Kwon
- BridgeGo Soeda
- BridgeJohnny Arcilla
- BridgeIssam Al Tawil
- DestinationSoong Jae Cho
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeSoon Woo Kwon
- BridgeJose Rubin Statham
- BridgeVicente Elberto Anasta
- BridgeIssam Al Tawil
- DestinationSoong Jae Cho
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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