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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
Camille Walter
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 →9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10July 23, 1996View Martina Hingis × Joelle Schad →03 BridgeOpen career →Joelle Schad
1 meeting10May 3, 1998View Joelle Schad × Camille Walter →04 DestinationOpen career →Camille Walter
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeNadin Ercegovic
- DestinationCamille Walter
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- BridgeNadin Ercegovic
- DestinationCamille Walter
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- DestinationCamille Walter
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeNadin Ercegovic
- DestinationCamille Walter
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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