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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
Veronica Osogo Nabwire
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 meeting01April 16, 2012View Veronica Osogo Nabwire × Anna Movsisyan →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Movsisyan
1 meeting10April 22, 2009View Anna Movsisyan × Kathinka Von Deichmann →03 BridgeOpen career →Kathinka Von Deichmann
1 meeting01July 16, 2018View Kathinka Von Deichmann × Patty Schnyder →04 BridgeOpen career →Patty Schnyder
1 meeting10August 31, 1998View Patty Schnyder × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginVeronica Osogo Nabwire
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVeronica Osogo Nabwire
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVeronica Osogo Nabwire
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVeronica Osogo Nabwire
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeLudmila Cervanova
- 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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