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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
Olivia Lukaszewicz
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 →9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
4 meetings22January 17, 2000 — November 6, 2006View Martina Hingis × Justine Henin →03 BridgeOpen career →Justine Henin
1 meeting10January 19, 2004View Justine Henin × Olivia Lukaszewicz →04 DestinationOpen career →Olivia Lukaszewicz
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
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationOlivia Lukaszewicz
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationOlivia Lukaszewicz
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationOlivia Lukaszewicz
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeJustine Henin
- DestinationOlivia Lukaszewicz
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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