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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
Dudi Sela
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →2 meetings11February 16, 2015 — April 25, 2016View Dudi Sela × Andrey Rublev →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrey Rublev
6 meetings15November 13, 2023 — February 16, 2026View Andrey Rublev × Carlos Alcaraz →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDudi Sela
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDudi Sela
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDudi Sela
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDudi Sela
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- 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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