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
Irina Ramialison
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
3 meetings21November 3, 2003 — June 14, 2010View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Anastasia Rodionova →03 BridgeOpen career →Anastasia Rodionova
1 meeting10October 12, 2015View Anastasia Rodionova × Irina Ramialison →04 DestinationOpen career →Irina Ramialison
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
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeAnastasia Rodionova
- DestinationIrina Ramialison
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeAnastasia Rodionova
- DestinationIrina Ramialison
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena Likhovtseva
- BridgeAnastasia Rodionova
- DestinationIrina Ramialison
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCara Black
- BridgeAnastasia Rodionova
- DestinationIrina Ramialison
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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