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
En-Shuo Liang
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01October 9, 2023View En-Shuo Liang × Yanina Wickmayer →02 BridgeOpen career →Yanina Wickmayer
2 meetings11March 4, 2013 — June 10, 2013View Yanina Wickmayer × Mirjana Lucic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Mirjana Lucic × Steffi Graf →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEn-Shuo Liang
- BridgeYanina Wickmayer
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginEn-Shuo Liang
- BridgeYanina Wickmayer
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginEn-Shuo Liang
- BridgeYanina Wickmayer
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginEn-Shuo Liang
- BridgeYanina Wickmayer
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- 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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