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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
Stephane Robert
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →6 meetings51March 20, 2023 — November 9, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Taylor Fritz →02 BridgeOpen career →Taylor Fritz
1 meeting10October 10, 2016View Taylor Fritz × Stephane Robert →03 DestinationOpen career →Stephane Robert
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationStephane Robert
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationStephane Robert
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationStephane Robert
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationStephane Robert
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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