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
May Emara
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 meeting01May 6, 1998View May Emara × Kirsi Lampinen →02 BridgeOpen career →Kirsi Lampinen
1 meeting01May 15, 2000View Kirsi Lampinen × Hila Rosen →03 BridgeOpen career →Hila Rosen
1 meeting10April 25, 1997View Hila Rosen × Anna Kournikova →04 BridgeOpen career →Anna Kournikova
3 meetings12August 26, 1996 — May 24, 1999View Anna Kournikova × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMay Emara
- BridgeKirsi Lampinen
- BridgeDesislava Topalova
- BridgeElena Makarova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMay Emara
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- BridgeOdeta Naujokaite
- BridgeTine Scheuer Larsen
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMay Emara
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- BridgeAngelika Schadler
- BridgeNanne Dahlman
- 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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