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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
Davin Russell
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 meetings11March 17, 2003 — May 26, 2003View Roger Federer × Luis Horna →02 BridgeOpen career →Luis Horna
1 meeting10February 9, 2007View Luis Horna × Jhonnatan Medina Alvarez →03 BridgeOpen career →Jhonnatan Medina Alvarez
1 meeting10September 19, 2003View Jhonnatan Medina Alvarez × Davin Russell →04 DestinationOpen career →Davin Russell
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgeJhonnatan Medina Alvarez
- DestinationDavin Russell
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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