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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
Oliver Ojakaar
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 meeting10March 15, 2024View Oliver Ojakaar × Sina Moghimi →02 BridgeOpen career →Sina Moghimi
1 meeting10March 15, 2024View Sina Moghimi × Kristjan Tamm →03 BridgeOpen career →Kristjan Tamm
1 meeting01September 13, 2024View Kristjan Tamm × Khumoun Sultanov →04 BridgeOpen career →Khumoun Sultanov
1 meeting01February 3, 2023View Khumoun Sultanov × Tommy Paul →05 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Paul
8 meetings26August 8, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Tommy Paul × 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.
- OriginOliver Ojakaar
- BridgeSina Moghimi
- BridgeKristjan Tamm
- BridgeKhumoun Sultanov
- BridgeCasper Ruud
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginOliver Ojakaar
- BridgeSina Moghimi
- BridgeKristjan Tamm
- BridgeKhumoun Sultanov
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginOliver Ojakaar
- BridgeSina Moghimi
- BridgeKristjan Tamm
- BridgeKhumoun Sultanov
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginOliver Ojakaar
- BridgeSina Moghimi
- BridgeKristjan Tamm
- BridgeAljaz Bedene
- BridgeNikola Milojevic
- 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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