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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
Fernanda Secinaro
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 →3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings12May 19, 2014 — August 28, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × Monica Puig →03 BridgeOpen career →Monica Puig
1 meeting10July 22, 2017View Monica Puig × Camila Romero →04 BridgeOpen career →Camila Romero
1 meeting10July 21, 2017View Camila Romero × Fernanda Secinaro →05 DestinationOpen career →Fernanda Secinaro
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
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeNadia Podoroska
- BridgeCamila Romero
- DestinationFernanda Secinaro
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeCamila Romero
- DestinationFernanda Secinaro
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeCamila Romero
- DestinationFernanda Secinaro
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeCamila Romero
- DestinationFernanda Secinaro
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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