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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
Marat Deviatiarov
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 →1 meeting10May 27, 2019View Roger Federer × Casper Ruud →02 BridgeOpen career →Casper Ruud
1 meeting10March 4, 2016View Casper Ruud × Lukas Mugevicius →03 BridgeOpen career →Lukas Mugevicius
1 meeting01September 18, 2015View Lukas Mugevicius × Marat Deviatiarov →04 DestinationOpen career →Marat Deviatiarov
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
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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