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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
Steffi Graf
reaches
Lucia Peyre
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
1 meeting10April 2, 2012View Mirjana Lucic × Mandy Minella →03 BridgeOpen career →Mandy Minella
1 meeting10February 7, 2019View Mandy Minella × Francisca Jorge →04 BridgeOpen career →Francisca Jorge
1 meeting10June 23, 2025View Francisca Jorge × Clara Vlasselaer →05 BridgeOpen career →Clara Vlasselaer
1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Clara Vlasselaer × Lucia Peyre →06 DestinationOpen career →Lucia Peyre
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeMaria Sakkari
- BridgeAnouk Koevermans
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- DestinationLucia Peyre
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeHeather Watson
- BridgeFrancisca Jorge
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- DestinationLucia Peyre
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeMandy Minella
- BridgeFrancisca Jorge
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- DestinationLucia Peyre
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeZarina Diyas
- BridgeHiromi Abe
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- DestinationLucia Peyre
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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