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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
Mina Abdul Rahman
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting10March 18, 2002View Martina Hingis × Janet Lee →03 BridgeOpen career →Janet Lee
1 meeting10February 23, 1999View Janet Lee × Uzma Khan →04 BridgeOpen career →Uzma Khan
1 meeting10February 17, 1998View Uzma Khan × Mina Abdul Rahman →05 DestinationOpen career →Mina Abdul Rahman
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeUzma Khan
- DestinationMina Abdul Rahman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeUzma Khan
- DestinationMina Abdul Rahman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeUzma Khan
- DestinationMina Abdul Rahman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeShaza Tinawi
- DestinationMina Abdul Rahman
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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