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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
Walter Barahona
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 →6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting10January 15, 2018View Karen Khachanov × Peter Polansky →03 BridgeOpen career →Peter Polansky
1 meeting10September 17, 2010View Peter Polansky × Jhonson Garcia →04 BridgeOpen career →Jhonson Garcia
1 meeting10February 9, 2001View Jhonson Garcia × Walter Barahona →05 DestinationOpen career →Walter Barahona
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- BridgeIvan Endara
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationWalter Barahona
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeDenis Shapovalov
- BridgePeter Polansky
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationWalter Barahona
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTallon Griekspoor
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationWalter Barahona
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationWalter Barahona
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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