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
Hortencia Birnbaumer
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10May 28, 2001View Martina Hingis × Catalina Castano →03 BridgeOpen career →Catalina Castano
1 meeting10February 1, 2012View Catalina Castano × Montserrat Gonzalez →04 BridgeOpen career →Montserrat Gonzalez
1 meeting10February 9, 2017View Montserrat Gonzalez × Hortencia Birnbaumer →05 DestinationOpen career →Hortencia Birnbaumer
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeAna Ivanovic
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeAna Ivanovic
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeMariana Duque Marino
- BridgeAdriana Perez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeChanelle Scheepers
- BridgeAdriana Perez
- DestinationHortencia Birnbaumer
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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