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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
Luisa Uscocovich
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meeting10April 12, 2014View Monica Puig × Shenelle Mohammed →04 BridgeOpen career →Shenelle Mohammed
1 meeting01July 22, 2017View Shenelle Mohammed × Yusleydis Smith Dias →05 BridgeOpen career →Yusleydis Smith Dias
1 meeting10July 20, 2017View Yusleydis Smith Dias × Luisa Uscocovich →06 DestinationOpen career →Luisa Uscocovich
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeNadia Podoroska
- BridgeAnastasia Iamachkine
- BridgeYusleydis Smith Dias
- DestinationLuisa Uscocovich
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeShenelle Mohammed
- BridgeYusleydis Smith Dias
- DestinationLuisa Uscocovich
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgeShenelle Mohammed
- BridgeYusleydis Smith Dias
- DestinationLuisa Uscocovich
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeBeatriz Haddad Maia
- BridgeAnastasia Iamachkine
- BridgeYusleydis Smith Dias
- DestinationLuisa Uscocovich
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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