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
Hamidan Bibi
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 meeting01April 26, 2000View Hamidan Bibi × Nicole Angat →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Angat
1 meeting01April 9, 2001View Nicole Angat × Romana Tedjakusuma →03 BridgeOpen career →Romana Tedjakusuma
1 meeting10May 4, 1993View Romana Tedjakusuma × Tamarine Tanasugarn →04 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01March 5, 1998View Tamarine Tanasugarn × 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.
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginHamidan Bibi
- BridgeNicole Angat
- BridgeRomana Tedjakusuma
- BridgeErika De Lone
- 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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