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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
Shayna Mcdowell
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
1 meeting10March 5, 2007View Martina Hingis × Yvonne Meusburger →03 BridgeOpen career →Yvonne Meusburger
1 meeting10January 9, 2006View Yvonne Meusburger × Shayna Mcdowell →04 DestinationOpen career →Shayna Mcdowell
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeYvonne Meusburger
- DestinationShayna Mcdowell
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMagui Serna
- BridgeYvonne Meusburger
- DestinationShayna Mcdowell
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeYvonne Meusburger
- DestinationShayna Mcdowell
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeYvonne Meusburger
- DestinationShayna Mcdowell
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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