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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
Alun Jones
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 →3 meetings30August 28, 2006 — March 12, 2009View Roger Federer × Marc Gicquel →02 BridgeOpen career →Marc Gicquel
1 meeting10January 15, 2007View Marc Gicquel × Alun Jones →03 DestinationOpen career →Alun Jones
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- DestinationAlun Jones
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlbert Montanes
- DestinationAlun Jones
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGilles Muller
- DestinationAlun Jones
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Hajek
- DestinationAlun Jones
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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