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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
Ismar Gorcic
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meetings20July 1, 2019 — November 11, 2019View Roger Federer × Matteo Berrettini →02 BridgeOpen career →Matteo Berrettini
1 meeting10July 23, 2018View Matteo Berrettini × Jurgen Zopp →03 BridgeOpen career →Jurgen Zopp
1 meeting10July 9, 2010View Jurgen Zopp × Ismar Gorcic →04 DestinationOpen career →Ismar Gorcic
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDominik Hrbaty
- BridgePredrag Rusevski
- DestinationIsmar Gorcic
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeJurgen Zopp
- DestinationIsmar Gorcic
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeJurgen Zopp
- DestinationIsmar Gorcic
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeLazar Magdincev
- DestinationIsmar Gorcic
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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