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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
Jean Julien Rojer
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 meetings20January 15, 2018 — March 5, 2018View Roger Federer × Hyeon Chung →02 BridgeOpen career →Hyeon Chung
2 meetings20April 4, 2016 — April 10, 2017View Hyeon Chung × Victor Estrella →03 BridgeOpen career →Victor Estrella
1 meeting01April 7, 2006View Victor Estrella × Jean Julien Rojer →04 DestinationOpen career →Jean Julien Rojer
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- DestinationJean Julien Rojer
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- DestinationJean Julien Rojer
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- DestinationJean Julien Rojer
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- DestinationJean Julien Rojer
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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