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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
Pauline Wong
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
01 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01February 6, 2009View Pauline Wong × Agnes Szavay →02 BridgeOpen career →Agnes Szavay
1 meeting01July 25, 2005View Agnes Szavay × Maria Sanchez Lorenzo →03 BridgeOpen career →Maria Sanchez Lorenzo
1 meeting01March 6, 1995View Maria Sanchez Lorenzo × 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.
- OriginPauline Wong
- BridgeAgnes Szavay
- BridgeElena Likhovtseva
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginPauline Wong
- BridgeAgnes Szavay
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginPauline Wong
- BridgeAgnes Szavay
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginPauline Wong
- BridgeAgnes Szavay
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- 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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