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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
Mustapha Dislam
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 meeting01September 14, 1979View Mustapha Dislam × Djamel Boudjemline →02 BridgeOpen career →Djamel Boudjemline
1 meeting01March 20, 1987View Djamel Boudjemline × Yahiya Doumbia →03 BridgeOpen career →Yahiya Doumbia
1 meeting10September 11, 1995View Yahiya Doumbia × Lionel Roux →04 BridgeOpen career →Lionel Roux
1 meeting10August 12, 2002View Lionel Roux × 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.
- OriginMustapha Dislam
- BridgeDjamel Boudjemline
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMustapha Dislam
- BridgeDjamel Boudjemline
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMustapha Dislam
- BridgeYassine Amier
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMustapha Dislam
- BridgeYassine Amier
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- 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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