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
Steffi Graf
reaches
Alena Panfilova
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
01 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
2 meetings20February 5, 2007 — February 5, 2010View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Yung Jan Chan →03 BridgeOpen career →Yung Jan Chan
1 meeting10February 7, 2015View Yung Jan Chan × Ho Ching Wu →04 BridgeOpen career →Ho Ching Wu
1 meeting10January 31, 2011View Ho Ching Wu × Sarah Al Balushi →05 BridgeOpen career →Sarah Al Balushi
1 meeting10January 31, 2011View Sarah Al Balushi × Alena Panfilova →06 DestinationOpen career →Alena Panfilova
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeRutuja Bhosale
- BridgeTamitha Nguyen
- DestinationAlena Panfilova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- BridgeTamitha Nguyen
- DestinationAlena Panfilova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeTheiviya Selvarajoo
- BridgeSarah Al Balushi
- DestinationAlena Panfilova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- BridgeTamitha Nguyen
- DestinationAlena Panfilova
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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