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
Jana Otzipka
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 8 meetings71March 13, 1992 — June 24, 1996View Steffi Graf × Kimiko Date Krumm →02 BridgeOpen career →Kimiko Date Krumm
1 meeting01March 17, 2014View Kimiko Date Krumm × Donna Vekic →03 BridgeOpen career →Donna Vekic
1 meeting10May 25, 2026View Donna Vekic × Alice Tubello →04 BridgeOpen career →Alice Tubello
1 meeting10August 4, 2025View Alice Tubello × Jana Otzipka →05 DestinationOpen career →Jana Otzipka
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeDonna Vekic
- BridgeAlice Tubello
- DestinationJana Otzipka
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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