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
Anouck Vrancken Peeters
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
3 meetings12September 13, 2010 — July 4, 2011View Mirjana Lucic × Sorana Cirstea →03 BridgeOpen career →Sorana Cirstea
1 meeting01July 27, 2025View Sorana Cirstea × Lulu Sun →04 BridgeOpen career →Lulu Sun
1 meeting10June 9, 2025View Lulu Sun × Anouck Vrancken Peeters →05 DestinationOpen career →Anouck Vrancken Peeters
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeCaroline Garcia
- BridgeLulu Sun
- DestinationAnouck Vrancken Peeters
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeCagla Buyukakcay
- BridgeIkumi Yamazaki
- DestinationAnouck Vrancken Peeters
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeJelena Ostapenko
- BridgeLulu Sun
- DestinationAnouck Vrancken Peeters
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeMaya Joint
- BridgeCarlota Martinez Cirez
- DestinationAnouck Vrancken Peeters
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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