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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
Dominik Guido Utzinger
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10May 10, 1985View Dominik Guido Utzinger × Elias Bramly →02 BridgeOpen career →Elias Bramly
1 meeting01January 17, 1986View Elias Bramly × Nduka Odizor →03 BridgeOpen career →Nduka Odizor
1 meeting01April 30, 1993View Nduka Odizor × Razvan Sabau →04 BridgeOpen career →Razvan Sabau
1 meeting01May 1, 2006View Razvan Sabau × Gael Monfils →05 BridgeOpen career →Gael Monfils
4 meetings13March 7, 2022 — October 2, 2024View Gael Monfils × Carlos Alcaraz →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDominik Guido Utzinger
- BridgeHarald Rittersbacher
- BridgeRicki Osterthun
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDominik Guido Utzinger
- BridgeHarald Rittersbacher
- BridgeRicki Osterthun
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDominik Guido Utzinger
- BridgeHarald Rittersbacher
- BridgeRicki Osterthun
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDominik Guido Utzinger
- BridgeHarald Rittersbacher
- BridgeCarlos Di Laura
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- 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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