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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
S Eummongkol
reaches
Roger Federer
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 →1 meeting01November 15, 1982View S Eummongkol × Rand Evett →02 BridgeOpen career →Rand Evett
1 meeting01January 10, 1983View Rand Evett × David Lewis →03 BridgeOpen career →David Lewis
1 meeting01October 2, 1989View David Lewis × Richard Fromberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Richard Fromberg
2 meetings11September 28, 1998 — June 19, 2000View Richard Fromberg × Roger Federer →05 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
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.
- OriginS Eummongkol
- BridgeRand Evett
- BridgeSimon Youl
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginS Eummongkol
- BridgeRand Evett
- BridgeSimon Youl
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginS Eummongkol
- BridgeRand Evett
- BridgeSimon Youl
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginS Eummongkol
- BridgeRand Evett
- BridgeSimon Youl
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
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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