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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
Jose Antonio Velazquez
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
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 meeting01April 4, 2003View Jose Antonio Velazquez × Ricardo Chile Fonte →02 BridgeOpen career →Ricardo Chile Fonte
1 meeting01April 4, 2003View Ricardo Chile Fonte × Victor Estrella →03 BridgeOpen career →Victor Estrella
1 meeting01July 18, 2016View Victor Estrella × Jordan Thompson →04 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
1 meeting01August 14, 2023View Jordan Thompson × Carlos Alcaraz →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJose Antonio Velazquez
- BridgeRicardo Chile Fonte
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJose Antonio Velazquez
- BridgeRicardo Chile Fonte
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJose Antonio Velazquez
- BridgeRicardo Chile Fonte
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeDaniel Altmaier
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJose Antonio Velazquez
- BridgeRicardo Chile Fonte
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- 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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