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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
Tucker Vorster
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 meeting10July 15, 2016View Tucker Vorster × Tadas Babelis →02 BridgeOpen career →Tadas Babelis
1 meeting01April 7, 2017View Tadas Babelis × Nikoloz Basilashvili →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikoloz Basilashvili
2 meetings11January 18, 2016 — March 8, 2021View Nikoloz Basilashvili × Roger Federer →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTucker Vorster
- BridgeJames Mcgee
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginTucker Vorster
- BridgeJames Mcgee
- BridgeAljaz Bedene
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginTucker Vorster
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeTommy Haas
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginTucker Vorster
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeSebastien Grosjean
- 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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