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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
Sarah Pitkowski Malcor
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →2 meetings02March 5, 1998 — August 30, 1999View Sarah Pitkowski Malcor × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
9 meetings27February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Martina Hingis × Steffi Graf →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSarah Pitkowski Malcor
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSarah Pitkowski Malcor
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSarah Pitkowski Malcor
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSarah Pitkowski Malcor
- BridgeRita Grande
- 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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