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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
Jing-Jing Lu
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 meeting10October 5, 2009View Anabel Medina Garrigues × Jing-Jing Lu →04 DestinationOpen career →Jing-Jing Lu
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeJelena Jankovic
- DestinationJing-Jing Lu
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeShuai Peng
- DestinationJing-Jing Lu
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeSania Mirza
- DestinationJing-Jing Lu
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeAnabel Medina Garrigues
- DestinationJing-Jing Lu
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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