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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
Anya King
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 →3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
2 meetings20June 7, 2010 — July 8, 2013View Mirjana Lucic × Mariana Duque Marino →03 BridgeOpen career →Mariana Duque Marino
1 meeting10January 31, 2012View Mariana Duque Marino × Noelia Zeballos →04 BridgeOpen career →Noelia Zeballos
1 meeting10April 20, 2019View Noelia Zeballos × Anya King →05 DestinationOpen career →Anya King
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
- BridgeVeronica Cepede Royg
- BridgeNoelia Zeballos
- DestinationAnya King
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeStephanie Dubois
- BridgeKerrie Cartwright
- DestinationAnya King
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeNoelia Zeballos
- DestinationAnya King
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeBianca Andreescu
- BridgeNoelia Zeballos
- DestinationAnya King
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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