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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
Roger Federer
reaches
Abdul Khalek Nadini
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meeting01June 7, 1999View Roger Federer × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10May 1, 1992View Byron Black × Frank Ofori →03 BridgeOpen career →Frank Ofori
1 meeting10July 21, 1989View Frank Ofori × Abdul Khalek Nadini →04 DestinationOpen career →Abdul Khalek Nadini
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationAbdul Khalek Nadini
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationAbdul Khalek Nadini
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationAbdul Khalek Nadini
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeOrlando Lourenco
- DestinationAbdul Khalek Nadini
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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