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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
Puriwat Chatpatcharoen
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 →2 meetings20January 15, 2018 — March 5, 2018View Roger Federer × Hyeon Chung →02 BridgeOpen career →Hyeon Chung
2 meetings11March 4, 2016 — January 7, 2019View Hyeon Chung × Jose Rubin Statham →03 BridgeOpen career →Jose Rubin Statham
1 meeting10March 5, 2010View Jose Rubin Statham × Harshana Godamanna →04 BridgeOpen career →Harshana Godamanna
1 meeting10March 4, 2016View Harshana Godamanna × Puriwat Chatpatcharoen →05 DestinationOpen career →Puriwat Chatpatcharoen
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
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeAdolfo Daniel Vallejo
- BridgeSharmal Dissanayake
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeDaniel King Turner
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
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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