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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
Alejandra Gomez
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 →2 meetings20August 31, 1992 — May 10, 1993View Steffi Graf × Florencia Labat →02 BridgeOpen career →Florencia Labat
1 meeting10July 18, 1994View Florencia Labat × Belkis Rodriguez →03 BridgeOpen career →Belkis Rodriguez
1 meeting10April 12, 1994View Belkis Rodriguez × Alejandra Gomez →04 DestinationOpen career →Alejandra Gomez
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
- BridgeRuxandra Dragomir Ilie
- BridgeBelkis Rodriguez
- DestinationAlejandra Gomez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- DestinationAlejandra Gomez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRene Simpson
- BridgeCarmina Giraldo
- DestinationAlejandra Gomez
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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