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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
Ana Maria Estalella Manso
reaches
Steffi Graf
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
01Open career → 3 meetings03July 29, 1968 — August 12, 1968View Ana Maria Estalella Manso × Lesley Turner →02 BridgeOpen career →Lesley Turner
2 meetings02December 21, 1974 — December 15, 1975View Lesley Turner × Wendy Turnbull →03 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
3 meetings21November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Wendy Turnbull × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- BridgeLesley Turner
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeLesley Turner
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeLesley Turner
- BridgeSue Barker
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeGail Sherriff
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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