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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
Gonzales Austin
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 meeting01July 8, 2011View Gonzales Austin × Chris Brandi →02 BridgeOpen career →Chris Brandi
1 meeting01March 4, 2011View Chris Brandi × Diego Galeano →03 BridgeOpen career →Diego Galeano
2 meetings02April 6, 2012 — January 31, 2014View Diego Galeano × Rafael Arevalo →04 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Arevalo
1 meeting01August 11, 2008View Rafael Arevalo × Roger Federer →05 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginGonzales Austin
- BridgeGabriel Flores Ruiz
- BridgeMarcelo Arevalo
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGonzales Austin
- BridgeGabriel Flores Ruiz
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGonzales Austin
- BridgeGabriel Flores Ruiz
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- 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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