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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
Toyokazu Tomogane
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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 meeting01October 19, 1981View Toyokazu Tomogane × Shinichi Sakamoto →02 BridgeOpen career →Shinichi Sakamoto
1 meeting10February 1, 1982View Shinichi Sakamoto × Chang Rung Wu →03 BridgeOpen career →Chang Rung Wu
1 meeting01March 8, 1985View Chang Rung Wu × Russell Simpson →04 BridgeOpen career →Russell Simpson
1 meeting01April 20, 1987View Russell Simpson × Andre Agassi →05 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
3 meetings21October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Andre Agassi × Feliciano Lopez →06 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →07 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginToyokazu Tomogane
- BridgeShinichi Sakamoto
- BridgeChang Rung Wu
- BridgeRussell Simpson
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginToyokazu Tomogane
- BridgeShinichi Sakamoto
- BridgeChang Rung Wu
- BridgeRussell Simpson
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginToyokazu Tomogane
- BridgeShinichi Sakamoto
- BridgeChang Rung Wu
- BridgeKelly Evernden
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginToyokazu Tomogane
- BridgeShinichi Sakamoto
- BridgeChang Rung Wu
- BridgeKelly Evernden
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
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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