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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
Ewa Radzikowska
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 →4 meetings31May 27, 1991 — February 18, 1998View Steffi Graf × Sabine Appelmans →02 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
1 meeting10April 22, 1994View Sabine Appelmans × Ismet Duygu Aksit Oal →03 BridgeOpen career →Ismet Duygu Aksit Oal
1 meeting01May 8, 1995View Ismet Duygu Aksit Oal × Sandra Olsen →04 BridgeOpen career →Sandra Olsen
1 meeting10March 30, 1996View Sandra Olsen × Ewa Radzikowska →05 DestinationOpen career →Ewa Radzikowska
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
- BridgeAmanda Brown
- BridgeHelen Asciak
- BridgeSandra Olsen
- DestinationEwa Radzikowska
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJudith Wiesner
- BridgeHelen Asciak
- BridgeSandra Olsen
- DestinationEwa Radzikowska
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeClare Wood
- BridgeIsmet Duygu Aksit Oal
- BridgeSandra Olsen
- DestinationEwa Radzikowska
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaria Strandlund Tomsvik
- BridgeLesley OHalloran
- BridgeSandra Olsen
- DestinationEwa Radzikowska
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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