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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
Andria Tsaggaridou
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 meeting10February 8, 2014View Andria Tsaggaridou × Anna Soffia Gronholm →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Soffia Gronholm
1 meeting01April 17, 2015View Anna Soffia Gronholm × Liniques Theron →03 BridgeOpen career →Liniques Theron
1 meeting01April 18, 2012View Liniques Theron × Nour Abbes →04 BridgeOpen career →Nour Abbes
1 meeting01April 19, 2013View Nour Abbes × Jelena Ostapenko →05 BridgeOpen career →Jelena Ostapenko
2 meetings20January 2, 2017 — April 3, 2017View Jelena Ostapenko × Mirjana Lucic →06 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Mirjana Lucic × Steffi Graf →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAndria Tsaggaridou
- BridgeAnna Soffia Gronholm
- BridgeLiniques Theron
- BridgeNour Abbes
- BridgeJelena Ostapenko
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAndria Tsaggaridou
- BridgeAnna Soffia Gronholm
- BridgeLiniques Theron
- BridgeNour Abbes
- BridgeJelena Ostapenko
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAndria Tsaggaridou
- BridgeAnna Soffia Gronholm
- BridgeJane Fennelly
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAndria Tsaggaridou
- BridgeAnna Soffia Gronholm
- BridgeJane Fennelly
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeSerena Williams
- 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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