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Eras
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
Joan Jimenez Guerra
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 →3 meetings12January 8, 2001 — October 15, 2001View Roger Federer × Wayne Ferreira →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
1 meeting01September 24, 2004View Wayne Ferreira × Konstantinos Economidis →03 BridgeOpen career →Konstantinos Economidis
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Konstantinos Economidis × Joan Jimenez Guerra →04 DestinationOpen career →Joan Jimenez Guerra
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
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeKonstantinos Economidis
- DestinationJoan Jimenez Guerra
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAntony Dupuis
- BridgeKonstantinos Economidis
- DestinationJoan Jimenez Guerra
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSargis Sargsian
- BridgeKonstantinos Economidis
- DestinationJoan Jimenez Guerra
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAttila Savolt
- BridgeNikos Rovas
- DestinationJoan Jimenez Guerra
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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