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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Steffi Graf
reaches
Monica Matias

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

6,597 players examined
  1. 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999
    View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →
  2. 2 meetings20February 12, 2001 — January 2, 2006
    View Martina Hingis × Maria Vento Kabchi →
  3. 1 meeting10April 20, 2006
    View Maria Vento Kabchi × Adriana Pereira →
  4. 1 meeting10February 1, 2008
    View Adriana Pereira × Leticia Demichelli →
  5. 1 meeting01May 17, 2011
    View Leticia Demichelli × Monica Matias →

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.

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.

Reverse the route →