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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Steffi Graf
reaches
Karen Smith

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

289 players examined
  1. 1 meeting10May 26, 1986
    View Steffi Graf × Marcella Mesker →
  2. 1 meeting10November 14, 1983
    View Marcella Mesker × Karen Smith →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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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