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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
Maral Khachik Awanes
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 →1 meeting10January 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
2 meetings11October 5, 1993 — June 17, 1997View Kerry Anne Guse × Shi Ting Wang →03 BridgeOpen career →Shi Ting Wang
1 meeting10May 3, 1994View Shi Ting Wang × Farah Dayoub →04 BridgeOpen career →Farah Dayoub
1 meeting10February 22, 1999View Farah Dayoub × Hamidan Bibi →05 BridgeOpen career →Hamidan Bibi
1 meeting10April 28, 2000View Hamidan Bibi × Maral Khachik Awanes →06 DestinationOpen career →Maral Khachik Awanes
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
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeShi Ting Wang
- BridgeFarah Dayoub
- BridgeHamidan Bibi
- DestinationMaral Khachik Awanes
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeShi Ting Wang
- BridgeFarah Dayoub
- BridgeHamidan Bibi
- DestinationMaral Khachik Awanes
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeHamidan Bibi
- DestinationMaral Khachik Awanes
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeNirupama Vaidyanathan
- BridgeDavilyn Godinet
- BridgePei Yuin Keng
- DestinationMaral Khachik Awanes
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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