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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
Brian Gyetko
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 →2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10June 24, 1991View Gianluca Pozzi × Brad Pearce →03 BridgeOpen career →Brad Pearce
1 meeting10October 5, 1987View Brad Pearce × Brian Gyetko →04 DestinationOpen career →Brian Gyetko
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
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeBrad Pearce
- DestinationBrian Gyetko
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeBrad Pearce
- DestinationBrian Gyetko
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- BridgeBrad Pearce
- DestinationBrian Gyetko
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePete Sampras
- BridgeBrad Pearce
- DestinationBrian Gyetko
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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