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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
Susanna Bostanjyan
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 meeting10May 10, 1999View Steffi Graf × Sandra Nacuk →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandra Nacuk
1 meeting10May 9, 1997View Sandra Nacuk × Ines Zouabi →03 BridgeOpen career →Ines Zouabi
1 meeting10April 29, 1999View Ines Zouabi × Susanna Bostanjyan →04 DestinationOpen career →Susanna Bostanjyan
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnna Kournikova
- BridgeHila Rosen
- DestinationSusanna Bostanjyan
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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