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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
Cesar Cruz
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
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 meeting10February 1, 2025View Cesar Cruz × Andrei Gorban →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Gorban
1 meeting01July 10, 2009View Andrei Gorban × Attila Balazs →03 BridgeOpen career →Attila Balazs
1 meeting01February 1, 2021View Attila Balazs × Carlos Alcaraz →04 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
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.
- OriginCesar Cruz
- BridgeElmer Moller
- BridgeAlexander Bublik
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginCesar Cruz
- BridgeElmer Moller
- BridgeTommy Paul
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginCesar Cruz
- BridgeElmer Moller
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginCesar Cruz
- BridgeElmer Moller
- BridgeJaume Munar
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
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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