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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
Pere Riba
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
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 →2 meetings02September 19, 2011 — April 9, 2012View Pere Riba × Albert Ramos →02 BridgeOpen career →Albert Ramos
4 meetings04February 17, 2020 — May 8, 2023View Albert Ramos × Carlos Alcaraz →03 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPere Riba
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginPere Riba
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- 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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