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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
Enrique Olivares
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 meetings20April 27, 2015 — May 10, 2015View Roger Federer × Pablo Cuevas →02 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Cuevas
2 meetings20February 3, 2018 — February 11, 2019View Pablo Cuevas × Marcelo Arevalo →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Arevalo
1 meeting10March 6, 2015View Marcelo Arevalo × Gabriel Flores Ruiz →04 BridgeOpen career →Gabriel Flores Ruiz
1 meeting01February 10, 2012View Gabriel Flores Ruiz × Enrique Olivares →05 DestinationOpen career →Enrique Olivares
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgeGabriel Flores Ruiz
- DestinationEnrique Olivares
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgeGabriel Flores Ruiz
- DestinationEnrique Olivares
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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