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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
Tshidiso Mosinyi
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meeting01April 28, 2006View Tshidiso Mosinyi × Sevil Aliyeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Sevil Aliyeva
1 meeting01April 25, 2007View Sevil Aliyeva × Pemra Ozgen →03 BridgeOpen career →Pemra Ozgen
1 meeting01April 26, 2006View Pemra Ozgen × Selima Sfar →04 BridgeOpen career →Selima Sfar
2 meetings11January 14, 2002 — February 23, 2004View Selima Sfar × Tamarine Tanasugarn →05 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01March 5, 1998View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Steffi Graf →06 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTshidiso Mosinyi
- BridgeSevil Aliyeva
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTshidiso Mosinyi
- BridgeSevil Aliyeva
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeLudmila Cervanova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTshidiso Mosinyi
- BridgeSevil Aliyeva
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTshidiso Mosinyi
- BridgeSevil Aliyeva
- BridgePemra Ozgen
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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