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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
Pei Ling Tong
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 24, 2004View Pei Ling Tong × Yekaterina Morozova →02 BridgeOpen career →Yekaterina Morozova
1 meeting01April 17, 2007View Yekaterina Morozova × Su Wei Hsieh →03 BridgeOpen career →Su Wei Hsieh
2 meetings11April 25, 2003 — April 21, 2007View Su Wei Hsieh × Tamarine Tanasugarn →04 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01March 5, 1998View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPei Ling Tong
- BridgeYekaterina Morozova
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginPei Ling Tong
- BridgeYekaterina Morozova
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginPei Ling Tong
- BridgeYekaterina Morozova
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginPei Ling Tong
- BridgeYekaterina Morozova
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- 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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