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
Astrid Lew Yan Foon
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 meeting01February 24, 2025View Astrid Lew Yan Foon × Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah →02Open career → 1 meeting10February 24, 2025View Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah × Viktoria Hruncakova →03 BridgeOpen career →Viktoria Hruncakova
1 meeting01August 28, 2017View Viktoria Hruncakova × 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.
- OriginAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeMaya Joint
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeBethanie Mattek Sands
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeBethanie Mattek Sands
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAstrid Lew Yan Foon
- BridgeLinda Fruhvirtova
- BridgeBethanie Mattek Sands
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- 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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