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
Sigurlaug Sigurdardottir
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 meeting01April 28, 2006View Sigurlaug Sigurdardottir × Ipek Senoglu →02 BridgeOpen career →Ipek Senoglu
1 meeting01March 30, 1996View Ipek Senoglu × Elena Brioukhovets →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena Brioukhovets
2 meetings02May 13, 1991 — November 9, 1992View Elena Brioukhovets × Steffi Graf →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSigurlaug Sigurdardottir
- BridgeCharlotte Aagaard
- BridgeElena Brioukhovets
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSigurlaug Sigurdardottir
- BridgeCharlotte Aagaard
- BridgeMariaan De Swardt
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSigurlaug Sigurdardottir
- BridgeOlfa Dhaoui
- BridgeAnne Mall
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSigurlaug Sigurdardottir
- 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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