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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
Valentin Dimov
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 →4 meetings31February 20, 2023 — October 28, 2024View Carlos Alcaraz × Nicolas Jarry →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Jarry
1 meeting10March 4, 2022View Nicolas Jarry × Blaz Rola →03 BridgeOpen career →Blaz Rola
1 meeting10July 9, 2010View Blaz Rola × Valentin Dimov →04 DestinationOpen career →Valentin Dimov
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
- BridgeMikael Ymer
- BridgeBlaz Rola
- DestinationValentin Dimov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeBlaz Rola
- DestinationValentin Dimov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndy Murray
- BridgeBlaz Rola
- DestinationValentin Dimov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- BridgeBlaz Rola
- DestinationValentin Dimov
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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