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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
Saira Sanchinelli
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 meeting01April 21, 1992View Saira Sanchinelli × Emilie Viqueira →02 BridgeOpen career →Emilie Viqueira
1 meeting01October 26, 1992View Emilie Viqueira × Lisa Raymond →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Raymond
2 meetings02August 1, 1994 — January 28, 1997View Lisa Raymond × 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.
- OriginSaira Sanchinelli
- BridgeEmilie Viqueira
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSaira Sanchinelli
- BridgeEmilie Viqueira
- BridgeVicki Nelson
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSaira Sanchinelli
- BridgeMaria Dolores Campana
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSaira Sanchinelli
- BridgeMaria Dolores Campana
- BridgeRene Simpson
- 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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