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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
Nortay Dowuona
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 meeting01May 2, 1997View Nortay Dowuona × Krystian Pfeiffer →02 BridgeOpen career →Krystian Pfeiffer
1 meeting10July 20, 2001View Krystian Pfeiffer × Dusan Vemic →03 BridgeOpen career →Dusan Vemic
1 meeting01July 10, 2006View Dusan Vemic × Marin Cilic →04 BridgeOpen career →Marin Cilic
5 meetings14April 26, 2021 — February 17, 2025View Marin Cilic × 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.
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- 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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