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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
Wendy Wasson
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meeting10July 13, 1981View Wendy Wasson × Andrea Tiezzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Tiezzi
1 meeting10December 11, 1989View Andrea Tiezzi × Csilla Cserepy →03 BridgeOpen career →Csilla Cserepy
1 meeting01May 25, 1987View Csilla Cserepy × Steffi Graf →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginWendy Wasson
- BridgeAndrea Tiezzi
- BridgePilar Vasquez
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginWendy Wasson
- BridgeAndrea Tiezzi
- BridgeRadomira Zrubakova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginWendy Wasson
- BridgeAndrea Tiezzi
- BridgeHester Witvoet
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginWendy Wasson
- BridgeAndrea Tiezzi
- BridgeDonna Faber
- 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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