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
Nina Potocnik
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01November 12, 2022View Nina Potocnik × Qinwen Zheng →02 BridgeOpen career →Qinwen Zheng
1 meeting10August 14, 2023View Qinwen Zheng × Venus Williams →03 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings23August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Venus Williams × Steffi Graf →04 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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