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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
Nicole Angat
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 →1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01May 4, 1993View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Romana Tedjakusuma →03 BridgeOpen career →Romana Tedjakusuma
1 meeting10April 9, 2001View Romana Tedjakusuma × Nicole Angat →04 DestinationOpen career →Nicole Angat
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
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- DestinationNicole Angat
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- DestinationNicole Angat
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- DestinationNicole Angat
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeErika De Lone
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- DestinationNicole Angat
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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