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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
Ruben Fernandez
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 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11August 29, 1994 — October 10, 1994View Gianluca Pozzi × Bernd Karbacher →03 BridgeOpen career →Bernd Karbacher
1 meeting10September 8, 1997View Bernd Karbacher × Ruben Fernandez →04 DestinationOpen career →Ruben Fernandez
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
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeBernd Karbacher
- DestinationRuben Fernandez
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeBernd Karbacher
- DestinationRuben Fernandez
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeBernd Karbacher
- DestinationRuben Fernandez
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- BridgeBernd Karbacher
- DestinationRuben Fernandez
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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