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
Kett Sadi
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 meeting01February 4, 2010View Kett Sadi × Ksenia Palkina →02 BridgeOpen career →Ksenia Palkina
1 meeting01September 20, 2010View Ksenia Palkina × Jill Craybas →03 BridgeOpen career →Jill Craybas
6 meetings24October 1, 2001 — October 4, 2004View Jill Craybas × 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.
- OriginKett Sadi
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- BridgeJill Craybas
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginKett Sadi
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- BridgeJill Craybas
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginKett Sadi
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- BridgeJill Craybas
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginKett Sadi
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- BridgeJill Craybas
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- 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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