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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
Oh Hee Kwon
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 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
2 meetings20August 25, 1997 — January 3, 2000View Cedric Pioline × Leander Paes →03 BridgeOpen career →Leander Paes
1 meeting10February 8, 2002View Leander Paes × Patrick Chucri →04 BridgeOpen career →Patrick Chucri
1 meeting01September 20, 2002View Patrick Chucri × Oh Hee Kwon →05 DestinationOpen career →Oh Hee Kwon
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
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgePatrick Chucri
- DestinationOh Hee Kwon
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgePatrick Chucri
- DestinationOh Hee Kwon
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgePatrick Chucri
- DestinationOh Hee Kwon
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgePatrick Chucri
- DestinationOh Hee Kwon
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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