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
Anja Stankovic
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 3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
2 meetings20February 29, 2016 — January 1, 2018View Mirjana Lucic × Tatjana Maria →03 BridgeOpen career →Tatjana Maria
1 meeting01July 22, 2024View Tatjana Maria × Miriam Bianca Bulgaru →04 BridgeOpen career →Miriam Bianca Bulgaru
1 meeting01September 22, 2025View Miriam Bianca Bulgaru × Anja Stankovic →05 DestinationOpen career →Anja Stankovic
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- DestinationAnja Stankovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- DestinationAnja Stankovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeYafan Wang
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- DestinationAnja Stankovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeJil Teichmann
- BridgeMiriam Bianca Bulgaru
- DestinationAnja Stankovic
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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