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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
Heinz Frank
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 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting01April 10, 1989View Gianluca Pozzi × Vijay Amritraj →03 BridgeOpen career →Vijay Amritraj
2 meetings11July 9, 1973 — March 26, 1979View Vijay Amritraj × Frew Mcmillan →04 BridgeOpen career →Frew Mcmillan
1 meeting01July 31, 1968View Frew Mcmillan × Heinz Frank →05 DestinationOpen career →Heinz Frank
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeDick Crealy
- DestinationHeinz Frank
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeFrew Mcmillan
- DestinationHeinz Frank
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeAttila Korpas
- DestinationHeinz Frank
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeFrew Mcmillan
- DestinationHeinz Frank
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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