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
Mari Osaka
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 meeting01March 18, 2019View Mari Osaka × Whitney Osuigwe →02 BridgeOpen career →Whitney Osuigwe
1 meeting01July 27, 2026View Whitney Osuigwe × Maya Joint →03 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting10June 29, 2026View Maya Joint × Serena Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × 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.
- OriginMari Osaka
- BridgeWhitney Osuigwe
- BridgeKurumi Nara
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMari Osaka
- BridgeWhitney Osuigwe
- BridgeKurumi Nara
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMari Osaka
- BridgeWhitney Osuigwe
- BridgeCamila Giorgi
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMari Osaka
- BridgeWhitney Osuigwe
- BridgeCamila Giorgi
- 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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