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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
Felipe Meligeni Alves
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 →1 meeting10May 27, 2019View Roger Federer × Casper Ruud →02 BridgeOpen career →Casper Ruud
1 meeting10May 27, 2024View Casper Ruud × Felipe Meligeni Alves →03 DestinationOpen career →Felipe Meligeni Alves
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
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- DestinationFelipe Meligeni Alves
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDusan Lajovic
- DestinationFelipe Meligeni Alves
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJames Duckworth
- DestinationFelipe Meligeni Alves
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDominic Thiem
- DestinationFelipe Meligeni Alves
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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