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
Hilary Barte
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 3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
5 meetings05June 20, 2011 — June 27, 2016View Mirjana Lucic × Dominika Cibulkova →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominika Cibulkova
1 meeting10July 26, 2010View Dominika Cibulkova × Hilary Barte →04 DestinationOpen career →Hilary Barte
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- DestinationHilary Barte
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeKai Chen Chang
- DestinationHilary Barte
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- DestinationHilary Barte
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- DestinationHilary Barte
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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