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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Choon Ho Kim
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz

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

4,649 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01March 2, 1984
    View Choon Ho Kim × Shu Hua Liu →
  2. 1 meeting10July 24, 1987
    View Shu Hua Liu × Shuzo Matsuoka →
  3. 3 meetings03July 5, 1993 — June 17, 1996
    View Shuzo Matsuoka × Greg Rusedski →
  4. 1 meeting01April 7, 2006
    View Greg Rusedski × Novak Djokovic →
  5. 10 meetings55May 2, 2022 — January 19, 2026
    View Novak Djokovic × Carlos Alcaraz →

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.

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.

Reverse the route →