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
Heini Salonen
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 meeting10September 30, 2002View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Kelly Liggan →03 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Liggan
1 meeting10April 25, 2007View Kelly Liggan × Ecaterina Vasenina →04 BridgeOpen career →Ecaterina Vasenina
1 meeting10April 25, 2008View Ecaterina Vasenina × Heini Salonen →05 DestinationOpen career →Heini Salonen
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeNihal Tarek Saleh
- DestinationHeini Salonen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeKathinka Von Deichmann
- BridgeNihal Tarek Saleh
- DestinationHeini Salonen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCorina Morariu
- BridgeKelly Liggan
- BridgeEcaterina Vasenina
- DestinationHeini Salonen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena Brioukhovets
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- BridgeNihal Tarek Saleh
- DestinationHeini Salonen
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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