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
Daniela Diez
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 meeting01April 9, 2014View Daniela Diez × Michelle Marie Valdez →02 BridgeOpen career →Michelle Marie Valdez
2 meetings02May 17, 2011 — April 11, 2014View Michelle Marie Valdez × Kirsten Andrea Weedon →03 BridgeOpen career →Kirsten Andrea Weedon
2 meetings02February 8, 2018 — April 13, 2022View Kirsten Andrea Weedon × Beatriz Haddad Maia →04 BridgeOpen career →Beatriz Haddad Maia
1 meeting01March 20, 2017View Beatriz Haddad Maia × Venus Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings23August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Venus 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.
- OriginDaniela Diez
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDaniela Diez
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- BridgeDaniela Schippers
- BridgePaula Ormaechea
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDaniela Diez
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- BridgeDaniela Schippers
- BridgePaula Ormaechea
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDaniela Diez
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- BridgeCamila Quesada
- BridgeMariana Correa
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- 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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