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
Daniela Diez
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meetings12May 19, 2014 — August 28, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × Monica Puig →03 BridgeOpen career →Monica Puig
1 meeting10April 21, 2012View Monica Puig × Paula Castro →04 BridgeOpen career →Paula Castro
1 meeting10April 19, 2012View Paula Castro × Michelle Marie Valdez →05 BridgeOpen career →Michelle Marie Valdez
1 meeting10April 9, 2014View Michelle Marie Valdez × Daniela Diez →06 DestinationOpen career →Daniela Diez
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- BridgeMariana Correa
- BridgeCamila Quesada
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- DestinationDaniela Diez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgePaula Castro
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- DestinationDaniela Diez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgePaula Ormaechea
- BridgeDaniela Schippers
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- DestinationDaniela Diez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMonica Puig
- BridgePaula Castro
- BridgeMichelle Marie Valdez
- DestinationDaniela Diez
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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