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Eras
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
Biljana Dimovska
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 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10November 4, 2000View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Dragana Zaric →03 BridgeOpen career →Dragana Zaric
1 meeting10April 25, 2001View Dragana Zaric × Biljana Dimovska →04 DestinationOpen career →Biljana Dimovska
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeKelly Liggan
- DestinationBiljana Dimovska
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- DestinationBiljana Dimovska
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBarbara Schwartz
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- DestinationBiljana Dimovska
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- BridgeChristina Wheeler
- DestinationBiljana Dimovska
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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