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
Anja Stankovic
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 meeting10September 22, 2025View Anja Stankovic × Miriam Bianca Bulgaru →02 BridgeOpen career →Miriam Bianca Bulgaru
1 meeting01July 16, 2018View Miriam Bianca Bulgaru × Yafan Wang →03 BridgeOpen career →Yafan Wang
1 meeting01October 12, 2015View Yafan Wang × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings23August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Venus Williams × 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.
- OriginAnja Stankovic
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- BridgeJil Teichmann
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAnja Stankovic
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAnja Stankovic
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAnja Stankovic
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- 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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