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
Dragana Ilic
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
2 meetings11January 14, 2002 — February 23, 2004View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Selima Sfar →03 BridgeOpen career →Selima Sfar
2 meetings20March 31, 2000 — April 29, 2006View Selima Sfar × Iris Staub →04 BridgeOpen career →Iris Staub
1 meeting01May 5, 1997View Iris Staub × Christine Njeuma →05 BridgeOpen career →Christine Njeuma
1 meeting01May 7, 1997View Christine Njeuma × Dragana Ilic →06 DestinationOpen career →Dragana Ilic
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
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeIris Staub
- BridgeChristine Njeuma
- DestinationDragana Ilic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLudmila Cervanova
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeIris Staub
- BridgeChristine Njeuma
- DestinationDragana Ilic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeIris Staub
- BridgeChristine Njeuma
- DestinationDragana Ilic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- BridgeIris Staub
- BridgeChristine Njeuma
- DestinationDragana Ilic
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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