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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
Patrik Rosenholm
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meeting01October 15, 2012View Patrik Rosenholm × Mikhail Youzhny →02 BridgeOpen career →Mikhail Youzhny
17 meetings017November 20, 2000 — August 28, 2017View Mikhail Youzhny × Roger Federer →03 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPatrik Rosenholm
- BridgeMalek Jaziri
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPatrik Rosenholm
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPatrik Rosenholm
- BridgeBernard Tomic
- DestinationRoger Federer
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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