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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
Rozi Feldman
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 meeting01August 19, 1969View Rozi Feldman × Maryna Godwin →02 BridgeOpen career →Maryna Godwin
2 meetings02December 21, 1968 — July 14, 1969View Maryna Godwin × Virginia Wade →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × 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.
- OriginRozi Feldman
- BridgeRaquel Giscafre
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginRozi Feldman
- BridgeRaquel Giscafre
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginRozi Feldman
- BridgeRaquel Giscafre
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginRozi Feldman
- BridgeRaquel Giscafre
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- 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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