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
Gabriela Porubin
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
1 meeting01June 9, 2003View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Eleni Daniilidou →03 BridgeOpen career →Eleni Daniilidou
1 meeting10April 22, 2009View Eleni Daniilidou × Amy Bowtell →04 BridgeOpen career →Amy Bowtell
1 meeting10February 7, 2014View Amy Bowtell × Katrina Sammut →05 BridgeOpen career →Katrina Sammut
1 meeting01February 8, 2014View Katrina Sammut × Gabriela Porubin →06 DestinationOpen career →Gabriela Porubin
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
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeKatrina Sammut
- DestinationGabriela Porubin
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeKatrina Sammut
- DestinationGabriela Porubin
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLudmila Cervanova
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeKatrina Sammut
- DestinationGabriela Porubin
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMagui Serna
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- BridgeAmy Bowtell
- BridgeKatrina Sammut
- DestinationGabriela Porubin
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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