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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
Mohammed Al Nabhani
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 23, 2003 — April 15, 2007View Roger Federer × Hyung Taik Lee →02 BridgeOpen career →Hyung Taik Lee
1 meeting10September 23, 2005View Hyung Taik Lee × Daniel King Turner →03 BridgeOpen career →Daniel King Turner
1 meeting10February 8, 2008View Daniel King Turner × Mohammed Al Nabhani →04 DestinationOpen career →Mohammed Al Nabhani
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
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- DestinationMohammed Al Nabhani
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMariano Zabaleta
- BridgeG D Jones
- DestinationMohammed Al Nabhani
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- DestinationMohammed Al Nabhani
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- BridgeDaniel King Turner
- DestinationMohammed Al Nabhani
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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