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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
Oskars Vaskis
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 Oskars Vaskis × Valentin Sanon →02 BridgeOpen career →Valentin Sanon
1 meeting01September 25, 1998View Valentin Sanon × Max Mirnyi →03 BridgeOpen career →Max Mirnyi
2 meetings20April 7, 2003 — October 6, 2003View Max Mirnyi × Feliciano Lopez →04 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × 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.
- OriginOskars Vaskis
- BridgeValentin Sanon
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginOskars Vaskis
- BridgeValentin Sanon
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginOskars Vaskis
- BridgeValentin Sanon
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginOskars Vaskis
- BridgeValentin Sanon
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- BridgeAndy Murray
- 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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