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
Anna Shchupak
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10April 22, 2003View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Chen Yee Liaw →03 BridgeOpen career →Chen Yee Liaw
1 meeting10April 26, 2000View Chen Yee Liaw × Alaa A A Ali →04 BridgeOpen career →Alaa A A Ali
1 meeting01April 29, 2000View Alaa A A Ali × Anna Shchupak →05 DestinationOpen career →Anna Shchupak
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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