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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
Leos Friedl
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meetings21April 2, 1999 — January 28, 2002View Roger Federer × Davide Sanguinetti →02 BridgeOpen career →Davide Sanguinetti
1 meeting01October 9, 2000View Davide Sanguinetti × Leos Friedl →03 DestinationOpen career →Leos Friedl
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKarol Kucera
- DestinationLeos Friedl
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMariano Zabaleta
- DestinationLeos Friedl
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeXavier Malisse
- DestinationLeos Friedl
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJose Acasuso
- DestinationLeos Friedl
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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