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
Maika Jae Tanpoco
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 meeting10February 4, 2012View Maika Jae Tanpoco × Inna Volkovich →02 BridgeOpen career →Inna Volkovich
1 meeting01February 3, 2012View Inna Volkovich × Wing Yau Venise Chan →03 BridgeOpen career →Wing Yau Venise Chan
1 meeting10April 17, 2007View Wing Yau Venise Chan × Iroda Tulyaganova →04 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
6 meetings24October 9, 2000 — April 19, 2007View Iroda Tulyaganova × Tamarine Tanasugarn →05 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01March 5, 1998View Tamarine Tanasugarn × 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.
- OriginMaika Jae Tanpoco
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaika Jae Tanpoco
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaika Jae Tanpoco
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaika Jae Tanpoco
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- 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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