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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
Mariaryeni Gutierrez
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01April 22, 2005View Mariaryeni Gutierrez × Chandra Capozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Chandra Capozzi
1 meeting01April 21, 2005View Chandra Capozzi × Andrea Koch Benvenuto →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Koch Benvenuto
1 meeting01April 21, 2007View Andrea Koch Benvenuto × Kristina Brandi →04 BridgeOpen career →Kristina Brandi
1 meeting01August 22, 2000View Kristina Brandi × Martina Hingis →05 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
9 meetings27February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Martina Hingis × 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.
- OriginMariaryeni Gutierrez
- BridgeChandra Capozzi
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeKristina Brandi
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMariaryeni Gutierrez
- BridgeChandra Capozzi
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeKristina Brandi
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMariaryeni Gutierrez
- BridgeChandra Capozzi
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeKristina Brandi
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMariaryeni Gutierrez
- BridgeChandra Capozzi
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeKristina Brandi
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- 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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