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
Bermet Duvanaeva
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10January 30, 2008View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Ling Zhang →03 BridgeOpen career →Ling Zhang
1 meeting01February 3, 2012View Ling Zhang × Bermet Duvanaeva →04 DestinationOpen career →Bermet Duvanaeva
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- DestinationBermet Duvanaeva
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeRushmi Chakravarthi
- DestinationBermet Duvanaeva
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- DestinationBermet Duvanaeva
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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