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
Lola Giza
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 meeting01August 4, 2025View Lola Giza × Susan Bandecchi →02 BridgeOpen career →Susan Bandecchi
1 meeting01July 11, 2022View Susan Bandecchi × Belinda Bencic →03 BridgeOpen career →Belinda Bencic
3 meetings21June 15, 2015 — February 27, 2017View Belinda Bencic × Mirjana Lucic →04 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Mirjana Lucic × 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.
- OriginLola Giza
- BridgeSusan Bandecchi
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLola Giza
- BridgeSusan Bandecchi
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLola Giza
- BridgeSusan Bandecchi
- BridgeBelinda Bencic
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLola Giza
- BridgeSusan Bandecchi
- BridgeOceane Dodin
- BridgeVenus Williams
- 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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