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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
Vincent Millot
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →8 meetings80March 21, 2005 — March 23, 2011View Roger Federer × Olivier Rochus →02 BridgeOpen career →Olivier Rochus
1 meeting10October 26, 2009View Olivier Rochus × Vincent Millot →03 DestinationOpen career →Vincent Millot
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJurgen Melzer
- DestinationVincent Millot
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationVincent Millot
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- DestinationVincent Millot
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillermo Garcia Lopez
- DestinationVincent Millot
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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