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Eras
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
Shane Stone
reaches
Roger Federer
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 meeting01April 5, 2002View Shane Stone × Ricardo Chile Fonte →02 BridgeOpen career →Ricardo Chile Fonte
1 meeting10March 4, 2005View Ricardo Chile Fonte × Pablo Cuevas →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Cuevas
2 meetings02April 27, 2015 — May 10, 2015View Pablo Cuevas × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginShane Stone
- BridgeMartin Vilarrubi
- BridgeLuis Horna
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginShane Stone
- BridgeSandor Martinez Breijo
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- 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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