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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
Eylon Sinai
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting01September 10, 1984View Eylon Sinai × Guillermo Rivas →02 BridgeOpen career →Guillermo Rivas
1 meeting10July 10, 1989View Guillermo Rivas × John Ross →03 BridgeOpen career →John Ross
1 meeting01February 15, 1988View John Ross × Andre Agassi →04 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
11 meetings38October 5, 1998 — August 29, 2005View Andre Agassi × Roger Federer →05 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEylon Sinai
- BridgeGuillermo Rivas
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginEylon Sinai
- BridgeGuillermo Rivas
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginEylon Sinai
- BridgeGuillermo Rivas
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginEylon Sinai
- BridgeGuillermo Rivas
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationRoger Federer
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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