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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
Markus Molder
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 meeting10February 7, 2026View Markus Molder × Codie Schalk Van Schalkwyk →02Open career → 1 meeting01February 1, 2025View Codie Schalk Van Schalkwyk × Coleman Wong →03 BridgeOpen career →Coleman Wong
1 meeting01March 18, 2024View Coleman Wong × Laslo Djere →04 BridgeOpen career →Laslo Djere
3 meetings03February 13, 2023 — May 7, 2025View Laslo Djere × 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.
- OriginMarkus Molder
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMarkus Molder
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeAleksandar Vukic
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMarkus Molder
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeDaniel Altmaier
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMarkus Molder
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeNuno Borges
- 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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