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
Ekaterina Ivanova
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
4 meetings40May 29, 2000 — June 26, 2006View Martina Hingis × Tathiana Garbin →03 BridgeOpen career →Tathiana Garbin
1 meeting01June 9, 2008View Tathiana Garbin × Ekaterina Ivanova →04 DestinationOpen career →Ekaterina Ivanova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeDaniela Hantuchova
- DestinationEkaterina Ivanova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeJelena Jankovic
- DestinationEkaterina Ivanova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeMaria Kirilenko
- DestinationEkaterina Ivanova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeNaomi Cavaday
- DestinationEkaterina Ivanova
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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