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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
Steffi Graf
reaches
Alcuba
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 meeting10June 25, 1984View Steffi Graf × Sue Barker →02 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting01April 28, 1975View Sue Barker × Florence Guedy →03 BridgeOpen career →Florence Guedy
1 meeting10March 1, 1976View Florence Guedy × Alcuba →04— DestinationOpen career →Alcuba
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeClaudia Kohde Kilsch
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- —DestinationAlcuba
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeIva Budarova
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- —DestinationAlcuba
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- BridgeFlorence Guedy
- —DestinationAlcuba
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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