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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
Dragos Nicolae Madaras
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01March 4, 2022View Dragos Nicolae Madaras × Taro Daniel →02 BridgeOpen career →Taro Daniel
1 meeting01February 2, 2015View Taro Daniel × Paul Henri Mathieu →03 BridgeOpen career →Paul Henri Mathieu
1 meeting10August 19, 2002View Paul Henri Mathieu × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDragos Nicolae Madaras
- BridgeOscar Otte
- BridgeRoger Federer
- 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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