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
Diana Bukajeva
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 meeting10April 27, 2007View Diana Bukajeva × Daniela Cociorba →02 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Cociorba
1 meeting01April 26, 2007View Daniela Cociorba × Elaine Genovese →03 BridgeOpen career →Elaine Genovese
1 meeting01April 21, 2009View Elaine Genovese × Emma Laine →04 BridgeOpen career →Emma Laine
1 meeting01January 16, 2006View Emma Laine × Martina Hingis →05 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
9 meetings27February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Martina Hingis × 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.
- OriginDiana Bukajeva
- BridgeDaniela Cociorba
- BridgeElaine Genovese
- BridgeEmma Laine
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDiana Bukajeva
- BridgeDaniela Cociorba
- BridgeElaine Genovese
- BridgeEmma Laine
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDiana Bukajeva
- BridgeDaniela Cociorba
- BridgeElaine Genovese
- BridgeEmma Laine
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDiana Bukajeva
- BridgeDaniela Cociorba
- BridgeElaine Genovese
- BridgeEmma Laine
- BridgeMary Pierce
- 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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