Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
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
Alexia Llysel Marquez
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 1 meeting01May 17, 2001View Alexia Llysel Marquez × Melissa Mendieta →02 BridgeOpen career →Melissa Mendieta
1 meeting01February 25, 1999View Melissa Mendieta × Daniela Olivera →03 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Olivera
2 meetings02April 15, 1998 — April 27, 2002View Daniela Olivera × Jana Nejedly →04 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting01January 31, 1994View Jana Nejedly × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAlexia Llysel Marquez
- BridgeMelissa Mendieta
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAlexia Llysel Marquez
- BridgeMelissa Mendieta
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAlexia Llysel Marquez
- BridgeMelissa Mendieta
- BridgeLarikah Russell
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- 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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