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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
Liova Ayite Ajavon
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10June 19, 2017View Roger Federer × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
2 meetings11April 22, 2024 — July 4, 2026View Karen Khachanov × Flavio Cobolli →03 BridgeOpen career →Flavio Cobolli
1 meeting10January 2, 2023View Flavio Cobolli × Sasi Kumar Mukund →04 BridgeOpen career →Sasi Kumar Mukund
1 meeting10February 1, 2025View Sasi Kumar Mukund × Liova Ayite Ajavon →05 DestinationOpen career →Liova Ayite Ajavon
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeEthan Quinn
- BridgeSasi Kumar Mukund
- DestinationLiova Ayite Ajavon
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeYassine Dlimi
- BridgeSasi Kumar Mukund
- DestinationLiova Ayite Ajavon
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeFlavio Cobolli
- BridgeSasi Kumar Mukund
- DestinationLiova Ayite Ajavon
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeTaro Daniel
- BridgeSasi Kumar Mukund
- DestinationLiova Ayite Ajavon
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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