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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
Hye Jin Park
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 →1 meeting10January 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting01September 12, 1995View Kerry Anne Guse × Kristin Godridge →03 BridgeOpen career →Kristin Godridge
1 meeting10June 12, 1995View Kristin Godridge × Hye Jin Park →04 DestinationOpen career →Hye Jin Park
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
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeKristin Godridge
- DestinationHye Jin Park
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeKristin Godridge
- DestinationHye Jin Park
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeKristin Godridge
- DestinationHye Jin Park
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeKristin Godridge
- DestinationHye Jin Park
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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