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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
Andres Molina
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 →2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10February 10, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Jimmy Arias →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Arias
3 meetings30October 18, 1982 — May 28, 1984View Jimmy Arias × Dominique Bedel →04 BridgeOpen career →Dominique Bedel
1 meeting10November 10, 1980View Dominique Bedel × Andres Molina →05 DestinationOpen career →Andres Molina
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.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeDominique Bedel
- DestinationAndres Molina
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeDominique Bedel
- DestinationAndres Molina
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeIvan Lendl
- BridgeDominique Bedel
- DestinationAndres Molina
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeDominique Bedel
- DestinationAndres Molina
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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