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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
Joan Jimenez Guerra
reaches
Roger Federer
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 meeting01April 4, 2003View Joan Jimenez Guerra × Nikos Rovas →02 BridgeOpen career →Nikos Rovas
1 meeting01April 30, 1999View Nikos Rovas × Attila Savolt →03 BridgeOpen career →Attila Savolt
1 meeting01January 14, 2002View Attila Savolt × Roger Federer →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJoan Jimenez Guerra
- BridgeNikos Rovas
- BridgeXavier Malisse
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJoan Jimenez Guerra
- BridgeNikos Rovas
- BridgeOlivier Rochus
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJoan Jimenez Guerra
- BridgeKonstantinos Economidis
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJoan Jimenez Guerra
- BridgeKonstantinos Economidis
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- 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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