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
Ana Sofia Cordero
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 meeting10May 21, 2011View Ana Sofia Cordero × Hilda Zuleta Cabrera →02 BridgeOpen career →Hilda Zuleta Cabrera
1 meeting01May 20, 2011View Hilda Zuleta Cabrera × Larikah Russell →03 BridgeOpen career →Larikah Russell
1 meeting01April 24, 2002View Larikah Russell × Maureen Drake →04 BridgeOpen career →Maureen Drake
2 meetings02August 27, 1990 — March 17, 1995View Maureen Drake × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAna Sofia Cordero
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeBeatriz Haddad Maia
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAna Sofia Cordero
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeVenus Williams
- 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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