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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
Juan Lugo
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 meetings20June 6, 2016 — January 14, 2019View Roger Federer × Taylor Fritz →02 BridgeOpen career →Taylor Fritz
1 meeting10February 13, 2023View Taylor Fritz × Emilio Gomez →03 BridgeOpen career →Emilio Gomez
1 meeting10September 14, 2019View Emilio Gomez × Juan Lugo →04 DestinationOpen career →Juan Lugo
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
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- BridgeEmilio Gomez
- DestinationJuan Lugo
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeLorenzo Sonego
- BridgeEmilio Gomez
- DestinationJuan Lugo
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- BridgeEmilio Gomez
- DestinationJuan Lugo
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAdrian Ungur
- BridgeEmilio Gomez
- DestinationJuan Lugo
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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