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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
Kristian Mitrovski
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 meetings20September 28, 1998 — February 15, 1999View Roger Federer × Guillaume Raoux →02 BridgeOpen career →Guillaume Raoux
1 meeting10July 19, 1993View Guillaume Raoux × Girts Dzelde →03 BridgeOpen career →Girts Dzelde
1 meeting10July 16, 1999View Girts Dzelde × Kristian Mitrovski →04 DestinationOpen career →Kristian Mitrovski
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
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeGirts Dzelde
- DestinationKristian Mitrovski
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeGirts Dzelde
- DestinationKristian Mitrovski
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeHicham Arazi
- BridgeGirts Dzelde
- DestinationKristian Mitrovski
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgeGirts Dzelde
- DestinationKristian Mitrovski
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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