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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
Martin Rmus
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01July 21, 2006View Martin Rmus × Stephen Nugent →02 BridgeOpen career →Stephen Nugent
1 meeting01April 4, 2003View Stephen Nugent × Mohamed Mamoun →03 BridgeOpen career →Mohamed Mamoun
1 meeting01July 16, 2004View Mohamed Mamoun × Irakli Labadze →04 BridgeOpen career →Irakli Labadze
1 meeting01July 7, 2003View Irakli Labadze × Feliciano Lopez →05 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMartin Rmus
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeIrakli Labadze
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMartin Rmus
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeTodor Enev
- BridgeAttila Balazs
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMartin Rmus
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMartin Rmus
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- 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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