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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
Salvador Colvee
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 meeting01September 28, 1998View Roger Federer × Jan Siemerink →02 BridgeOpen career →Jan Siemerink
2 meetings20September 25, 1998 — September 24, 1999View Jan Siemerink × Luis Adrian Morejon →03 BridgeOpen career →Luis Adrian Morejon
1 meeting01March 29, 1991View Luis Adrian Morejon × Salvador Colvee →04 DestinationOpen career →Salvador Colvee
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
- BridgeDaniel Nestor
- BridgeLuis Adrian Morejon
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeLuis Adrian Morejon
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrea Gaudenzi
- BridgeLuis Adrian Morejon
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeLuis Adrian Morejon
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
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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