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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
Sofia Kvatsabaia
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 meeting01January 30, 2008View Sofia Kvatsabaia × Darya Kustova →02 BridgeOpen career →Darya Kustova
1 meeting01July 10, 2004View Darya Kustova × Henrieta Nagyova →03 BridgeOpen career →Henrieta Nagyova
3 meetings03June 22, 1998 — March 18, 1999View Henrieta Nagyova × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSofia Kvatsabaia
- BridgeAna Konjuh
- BridgeVenus Williams
- 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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