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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
Debbie Chesterton
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meeting10November 26, 1984View Steffi Graf × Lea Antonoplis →02 BridgeOpen career →Lea Antonoplis
1 meeting10June 29, 1981View Lea Antonoplis × Debbie Chesterton →03 DestinationOpen career →Debbie Chesterton
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnn Henricksson
- DestinationDebbie Chesterton
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLea Plchova
- DestinationDebbie Chesterton
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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