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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
Vanessa Menga
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meeting01December 2, 1991View Vanessa Menga × Florencia Labat →02 BridgeOpen career →Florencia Labat
2 meetings02August 31, 1992 — May 10, 1993View Florencia Labat × Steffi Graf →03 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginVanessa Menga
- BridgePaola Suarez
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVanessa Menga
- BridgePatricia Hy Boulais
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVanessa Menga
- BridgeSamantha Reeves
- 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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