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
Andrea Giraldo
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 meeting01April 20, 2004View Andrea Giraldo × Marcela Arroyo Vergara →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcela Arroyo Vergara
1 meeting01April 24, 2004View Marcela Arroyo Vergara × Carla Tiene →03 BridgeOpen career →Carla Tiene
1 meeting01September 9, 2002View Carla Tiene × Iva Majoli →04 BridgeOpen career →Iva Majoli
7 meetings07March 1, 1993 — January 28, 1997View Iva Majoli × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAndrea Giraldo
- BridgeMarcela Arroyo Vergara
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAndrea Giraldo
- BridgeMarcela Arroyo Vergara
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAndrea Giraldo
- BridgeMiriam Cruz
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAndrea Giraldo
- BridgeMiriam Cruz
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- 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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