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
Maria De Los Angeles Ycaza
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10July 23, 1996View Martina Hingis × Joelle Schad →03 BridgeOpen career →Joelle Schad
1 meeting10May 16, 1997View Joelle Schad × Florea De Maria Urrea →04 BridgeOpen career →Florea De Maria Urrea
1 meeting01May 11, 1996View Florea De Maria Urrea × Maria De Los Angeles Ycaza →05 DestinationOpen career →Maria De Los Angeles Ycaza
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
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeMaria Dolores Campana
- BridgeMonica Aguero
- DestinationMaria De Los Angeles Ycaza
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLuciana Tella
- BridgeMonica Aguero
- DestinationMaria De Los Angeles Ycaza
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeLuciana Tella
- BridgeMonica Aguero
- DestinationMaria De Los Angeles Ycaza
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeAndrea Vieira
- BridgeStephanie Mayorkis
- DestinationMaria De Los Angeles Ycaza
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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