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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
Jose Medrano
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 →4 meetings40May 13, 2002 — March 24, 2010View Roger Federer × Nicolas Lapentti →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
1 meeting10February 9, 1996View Nicolas Lapentti × Richard Ashby →03 BridgeOpen career →Richard Ashby
2 meetings20February 2, 1990 — February 1, 1991View Richard Ashby × Jose Medrano →04 DestinationOpen career →Jose Medrano
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeArmando Perez
- DestinationJose Medrano
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeLuis Perez Chete
- DestinationJose Medrano
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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