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
Maika Jae Tanpoco
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
6 meetings42October 9, 2000 — April 19, 2007View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Iroda Tulyaganova →03 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
1 meeting01April 17, 2007View Iroda Tulyaganova × Wing Yau Venise Chan →04 BridgeOpen career →Wing Yau Venise Chan
1 meeting10February 3, 2012View Wing Yau Venise Chan × Inna Volkovich →05 BridgeOpen career →Inna Volkovich
1 meeting01February 4, 2012View Inna Volkovich × Maika Jae Tanpoco →06 DestinationOpen career →Maika Jae Tanpoco
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeMarian Jade Capadocia
- BridgeSahar Najaei
- DestinationMaika Jae Tanpoco
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeGeraldine Ang
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- DestinationMaika Jae Tanpoco
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- DestinationMaika Jae Tanpoco
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- DestinationMaika Jae Tanpoco
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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