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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
Anja Vanessa Peter
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10January 15, 2007View Martina Hingis × Na Li →03 BridgeOpen career →Na Li
1 meeting10March 7, 2002View Na Li × Ivanna Israilova →04 BridgeOpen career →Ivanna Israilova
1 meeting10April 19, 2005View Ivanna Israilova × Anja Vanessa Peter →05 DestinationOpen career →Anja Vanessa Peter
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeJie Zheng
- BridgeIvanna Israilova
- DestinationAnja Vanessa Peter
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeNa Li
- BridgeIvanna Israilova
- DestinationAnja Vanessa Peter
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeSaori Obata
- BridgeIvanna Israilova
- DestinationAnja Vanessa Peter
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeLenka Nemeckova
- BridgeIvanna Israilova
- DestinationAnja Vanessa Peter
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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