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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
Isis Louise Van Den Broek
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
01Open career → 1 meeting01June 9, 2025View Isis Louise Van Den Broek × Elena-Gabriela Ruse →02 BridgeOpen career →Elena-Gabriela Ruse
1 meeting01July 13, 2026View Elena-Gabriela Ruse × Kaitlin Quevedo →03 BridgeOpen career →Kaitlin Quevedo
1 meeting10April 21, 2026View Kaitlin Quevedo × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings23August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Venus Williams × 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.
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- 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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