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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
Redrellio
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 →3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →02 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
3 meetings12December 26, 1975 — June 19, 1978View Wendy Turnbull × Helen Gourlay →03 BridgeOpen career →Helen Gourlay
1 meeting10November 3, 1969View Helen Gourlay × Pepy Munslow →04 BridgeOpen career →Pepy Munslow
1 meeting10March 10, 1970View Pepy Munslow × Redrellio →05— DestinationOpen career →Redrellio
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgePatti Hogan
- BridgePepy Munslow
- —DestinationRedrellio
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeLindsey Beaven
- BridgePepy Munslow
- —DestinationRedrellio
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgePepy Munslow
- —DestinationRedrellio
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeBetty Stove
- BridgePepy Munslow
- —DestinationRedrellio
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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