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
Ella Haavisto
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10January 16, 2006View Martina Hingis × Emma Laine →03 BridgeOpen career →Emma Laine
1 meeting10April 21, 2009View Emma Laine × Elaine Genovese →04 BridgeOpen career →Elaine Genovese
1 meeting10April 13, 2023View Elaine Genovese × Shavit Kimchi →05 BridgeOpen career →Shavit Kimchi
1 meeting10April 13, 2022View Shavit Kimchi × Ella Haavisto →06 DestinationOpen career →Ella Haavisto
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeAndre Lukosiute
- DestinationElla Haavisto
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeAnett Kontaveit
- BridgeInes Murta
- BridgeShavit Kimchi
- DestinationElla Haavisto
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeAndre Lukosiute
- DestinationElla Haavisto
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeAndre Lukosiute
- DestinationElla Haavisto
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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