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
Nancy Karaky
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 6, 2018View Nancy Karaky × Yasmina Karimjanova →02 BridgeOpen career →Yasmina Karimjanova
1 meeting01March 6, 2020View Yasmina Karimjanova × Saisai Zheng →03 BridgeOpen career →Saisai Zheng
2 meetings02November 2, 2015 — August 26, 2019View Saisai Zheng × Venus Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings23August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Venus Williams × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi 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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