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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
Liang Chi Huang
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
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 5, 2013View Liang Chi Huang × Di Wu →02 BridgeOpen career →Di Wu
1 meeting01October 2, 2017View Di Wu × Karen Khachanov →03 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
6 meetings06May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Karen Khachanov × Carlos Alcaraz →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginLiang Chi Huang
- BridgeDi Wu
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginLiang Chi Huang
- BridgeDi Wu
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginLiang Chi Huang
- BridgeDi Wu
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginLiang Chi Huang
- BridgeDi Wu
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- 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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