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
Celia Anson Sanchez
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Celia Anson Sanchez × Mana Kawamura →02 BridgeOpen career →Mana Kawamura
1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Mana Kawamura × Eva Vedder →03 BridgeOpen career →Eva Vedder
1 meeting10June 23, 2025View Eva Vedder × Anna-Lena Friedsam →04 BridgeOpen career →Anna-Lena Friedsam
2 meetings02May 25, 2015 — May 9, 2016View Anna-Lena Friedsam × Serena Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCelia Anson Sanchez
- BridgeMana Kawamura
- BridgeEva Vedder
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginCelia Anson Sanchez
- BridgeMana Kawamura
- BridgeEva Vedder
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginCelia Anson Sanchez
- BridgeMana Kawamura
- BridgeEva Vedder
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginCelia Anson Sanchez
- BridgeMana Kawamura
- BridgeEva Vedder
- BridgeBianca Andreescu
- BridgeSerena 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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