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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
Claudia Razzeto
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
3 meetings30January 30, 2006 — February 26, 2007View Martina Hingis × Maria Kirilenko →03 BridgeOpen career →Maria Kirilenko
1 meeting10April 1, 2013View Maria Kirilenko × Ximena Hermoso →04 BridgeOpen career →Ximena Hermoso
1 meeting10April 23, 2009View Ximena Hermoso × Claudia Razzeto →05 DestinationOpen career →Claudia Razzeto
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
- BridgeMaria Kirilenko
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- DestinationClaudia Razzeto
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeSesil Karatantcheva
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- DestinationClaudia Razzeto
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeJulia Goerges
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- DestinationClaudia Razzeto
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeMagdalena Rybarikova
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- DestinationClaudia Razzeto
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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