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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
Yasmine Kabbaj
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 →3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
2 meetings20February 29, 2016 — January 1, 2018View Mirjana Lucic × Tatjana Maria →03 BridgeOpen career →Tatjana Maria
1 meeting01May 18, 2026View Tatjana Maria × Yasmine Kabbaj →04 DestinationOpen career →Yasmine Kabbaj
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAnastasija Sevastova
- DestinationYasmine Kabbaj
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeAnastasija Sevastova
- DestinationYasmine Kabbaj
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- DestinationYasmine Kabbaj
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- DestinationYasmine Kabbaj
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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