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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Madhusudhan Nair
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

2,149 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01August 8, 1984
    View Madhusudhan Nair × Stuart Bale →
  2. 1 meeting10March 18, 1985
    View Stuart Bale × Guy Forget →
  3. 3 meetings03September 21, 1987 — August 29, 1994
    View Guy Forget × Andre Agassi →
  4. 3 meetings21October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005
    View Andre Agassi × Feliciano Lopez →
  5. 1 meeting01April 5, 2021
    View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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.

Reverse the route →