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
Annalisa Bona
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 3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
4 meetings04June 24, 2013 — August 28, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × Carla Suarez Navarro →03 BridgeOpen career →Carla Suarez Navarro
1 meeting10April 9, 2012View Carla Suarez Navarro × Annalisa Bona →04 DestinationOpen career →Annalisa Bona
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeCarla Suarez Navarro
- DestinationAnnalisa Bona
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeCarla Suarez Navarro
- DestinationAnnalisa Bona
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeCarla Suarez Navarro
- DestinationAnnalisa Bona
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- BridgeCarla Suarez Navarro
- DestinationAnnalisa Bona
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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