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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
Mika Stojsavljevic
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 meeting01June 8, 2026View Mika Stojsavljevic × Donna Vekic →02 BridgeOpen career →Donna Vekic
1 meeting10March 17, 2014View Donna Vekic × Kimiko Date Krumm →03 BridgeOpen career →Kimiko Date Krumm
8 meetings17March 13, 1992 — June 24, 1996View Kimiko Date Krumm × 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.
- OriginMika Stojsavljevic
- BridgeDonna Vekic
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMika Stojsavljevic
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMika Stojsavljevic
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMika Stojsavljevic
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- 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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