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
Chang Liu
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
3 meetings21January 15, 2001 — August 28, 2006View Martina Hingis × Virginie Razzano →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginie Razzano
1 meeting01June 6, 2011View Virginie Razzano × Arina Rodionova →04 BridgeOpen career →Arina Rodionova
1 meeting10April 17, 2017View Arina Rodionova × Chang Liu →05 DestinationOpen career →Chang Liu
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- DestinationChang Liu
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeVera Zvonareva
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- DestinationChang Liu
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeShuai Peng
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- DestinationChang Liu
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeKateryna Bondarenko
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- DestinationChang Liu
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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