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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
Irena Pavlovic
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 →9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10February 19, 2007View Martina Hingis × Anabel Medina Garrigues →03 BridgeOpen career →Anabel Medina Garrigues
1 meeting10May 28, 2012View Anabel Medina Garrigues × Irena Pavlovic →04 DestinationOpen career →Irena Pavlovic
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeAnabel Medina Garrigues
- DestinationIrena Pavlovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeMarina Erakovic
- DestinationIrena Pavlovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeShelby Rogers
- DestinationIrena Pavlovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAnabel Medina Garrigues
- DestinationIrena Pavlovic
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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