Tennis.esp.br

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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
→
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Sandrella Droubi
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

2,624 players examined
  1. 1 meeting10February 21, 1998
    View Sandrella Droubi × Salima Esmat Salman →
  2. 1 meeting01April 27, 2000
    View Salima Esmat Salman × Tagifano Soonalole →
  3. 1 meeting01September 10, 2001
    View Tagifano Soonalole × Lilia Osterloh →
  4. 3 meetings03January 18, 1999 — August 6, 2001
    View Lilia Osterloh × Martina Hingis →
  5. 9 meetings27February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999
    View Martina Hingis × 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.

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.

Reverse the route →