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
Leticia Sobral
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 meeting10June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Ludmila Cervanova →02 BridgeOpen career →Ludmila Cervanova
1 meeting01February 20, 2006View Ludmila Cervanova × Lourdes Dominguez Lino →03 BridgeOpen career →Lourdes Dominguez Lino
1 meeting10January 28, 2002View Lourdes Dominguez Lino × Leticia Sobral →04 DestinationOpen career →Leticia Sobral
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
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- DestinationLeticia Sobral
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- DestinationLeticia Sobral
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- DestinationLeticia Sobral
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCara Black
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- DestinationLeticia Sobral
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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