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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
Christopher Diaz Figueroa
reaches
Pete Sampras
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
01Open career → 1 meeting01July 9, 2010View Christopher Diaz Figueroa × Martijn Van Haasteren →02 BridgeOpen career →Martijn Van Haasteren
1 meeting01March 5, 2010View Martijn Van Haasteren × Ramon Delgado →03 BridgeOpen career →Ramon Delgado
3 meetings12April 27, 1998 — March 1, 1999View Ramon Delgado × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeAlexander Blom
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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