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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
Tamitha Nguyen
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 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
1 meeting10October 8, 2012View Mirjana Lucic × Luksika Kumkhum →03 BridgeOpen career →Luksika Kumkhum
1 meeting10April 11, 2023View Luksika Kumkhum × Rutuja Bhosale →04 BridgeOpen career →Rutuja Bhosale
1 meeting10February 3, 2012View Rutuja Bhosale × Tamitha Nguyen →05 DestinationOpen career →Tamitha Nguyen
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeRutuja Bhosale
- DestinationTamitha Nguyen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- DestinationTamitha Nguyen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- DestinationTamitha Nguyen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- DestinationTamitha Nguyen
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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