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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
Zsofia Golopencza
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 →1 meeting10January 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
2 meetings11February 27, 1999View Kerry Anne Guse × Trudi Musgrave →03 BridgeOpen career →Trudi Musgrave
1 meeting10February 27, 1999View Trudi Musgrave × Aniela Mojzis →04 BridgeOpen career →Aniela Mojzis
1 meeting10February 27, 1999View Aniela Mojzis × Zsofia Golopencza →05 DestinationOpen career →Zsofia Golopencza
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeKate Warne Holland
- BridgeAniela Mojzis
- DestinationZsofia Golopencza
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePaola Suarez
- BridgeTrudi Musgrave
- BridgeAniela Mojzis
- DestinationZsofia Golopencza
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeTrudi Musgrave
- BridgeAniela Mojzis
- DestinationZsofia Golopencza
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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