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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
Haibibi Bouchaib
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →4 meetings22February 7, 2000 — October 20, 2003View Roger Federer × Marc Rosset →02 BridgeOpen career →Marc Rosset
1 meeting01September 24, 1990View Marc Rosset × Mansour Bahrami →03 BridgeOpen career →Mansour Bahrami
1 meeting10October 3, 1977View Mansour Bahrami × Omar Laimina →04 BridgeOpen career →Omar Laimina
1 meeting10November 10, 1972View Omar Laimina × Jean Neuman →05 BridgeOpen career →Jean Neuman
1 meeting01November 10, 1972View Jean Neuman × Haibibi Bouchaib →06 DestinationOpen career →Haibibi Bouchaib
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeMichael Hickey
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeOmar Laimina
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeMichael Hickey
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeOmar Laimina
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
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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