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
Lara Smejkal
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 3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
2 meetings11September 13, 2010 — June 24, 2013View Mirjana Lucic × Sofia Arvidsson →03 BridgeOpen career →Sofia Arvidsson
1 meeting10February 2, 2012View Sofia Arvidsson × Reka Luca Jani →04 BridgeOpen career →Reka Luca Jani
1 meeting10April 16, 2022View Reka Luca Jani × Lara Smejkal →05 DestinationOpen career →Lara Smejkal
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeKirsten Flipkens
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- DestinationLara Smejkal
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- DestinationLara Smejkal
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeMonica Niculescu
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- DestinationLara Smejkal
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- DestinationLara Smejkal
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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