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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
Ignacio Hirigoyen
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 meeting10February 9, 2001View Roger Federer × Todd Martin →02 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
1 meeting10April 22, 2002View Todd Martin × Ignacio Hirigoyen →03 DestinationOpen career →Ignacio Hirigoyen
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFernando Vicente
- DestinationIgnacio Hirigoyen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNicolas Massu
- DestinationIgnacio Hirigoyen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeLuis Horna
- DestinationIgnacio Hirigoyen
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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