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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
Aranza Lailu Benitez Ellis
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01Open career → 1 meeting01July 20, 2017View Aranza Lailu Benitez Ellis × Ariana Rahmanparast →02 BridgeOpen career →Ariana Rahmanparast
1 meeting01April 12, 2014View Ariana Rahmanparast × Daniela Seguel →03 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Seguel
1 meeting01February 10, 2017View Daniela Seguel × Mariana Duque Marino →04 BridgeOpen career →Mariana Duque Marino
2 meetings02June 7, 2010 — July 8, 2013View Mariana Duque Marino × Mirjana Lucic →05 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Mirjana Lucic × Steffi Graf →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- BridgeAriana Rahmanparast
- BridgeDaniela Seguel
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeAriana Rahmanparast
- BridgeDaniela Seguel
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeAriana Rahmanparast
- BridgeDaniela Seguel
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeVirginia Ruano Pascual
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeAriana Rahmanparast
- BridgeDaniela Seguel
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- 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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