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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
Jiri Lehecka
reaches
Roger Federer
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 →3 meetings12March 20, 2023 — February 26, 2024View Jiri Lehecka × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting01June 19, 2017View Karen Khachanov × Roger Federer →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJiri Lehecka
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJiri Lehecka
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJiri Lehecka
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJiri Lehecka
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- 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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