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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
Tawfik Al Ibrahim
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 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings02February 10, 1992 — January 3, 1994View Gianluca Pozzi × Richey Reneberg →03 BridgeOpen career →Richey Reneberg
1 meeting10January 4, 1993View Richey Reneberg × Ramayah Ramachandran →04 BridgeOpen career →Ramayah Ramachandran
1 meeting10May 10, 1991View Ramayah Ramachandran × Tawfik Al Ibrahim →05 DestinationOpen career →Tawfik Al Ibrahim
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeRamayah Ramachandran
- DestinationTawfik Al Ibrahim
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeRamayah Ramachandran
- DestinationTawfik Al Ibrahim
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeRamayah Ramachandran
- DestinationTawfik Al Ibrahim
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeRamayah Ramachandran
- DestinationTawfik Al Ibrahim
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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