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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
Lorena Solar Donoso
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 meeting01June 23, 2025View Lorena Solar Donoso × Ankita Raina →02 BridgeOpen career →Ankita Raina
1 meeting10July 31, 2023View Ankita Raina × Barbora Strycova →03 BridgeOpen career →Barbora Strycova
1 meeting10September 12, 2011View Barbora Strycova × Mirjana Lucic →04 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Mirjana Lucic × 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.
- OriginLorena Solar Donoso
- BridgeAnkita Raina
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLorena Solar Donoso
- BridgeAnkita Raina
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLorena Solar Donoso
- BridgeAnkita Raina
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLorena Solar Donoso
- BridgeAnkita Raina
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- BridgeElena Likhovtseva
- 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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