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
Marina Lidiya
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
2 meetings11February 3, 2012 — February 6, 2012View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Galina Voskoboeva →03 BridgeOpen career →Galina Voskoboeva
1 meeting10February 6, 2009View Galina Voskoboeva × Zi Jun Yang →04 BridgeOpen career →Zi Jun Yang
1 meeting10February 3, 2010View Zi Jun Yang × Kim Sadi →05 BridgeOpen career →Kim Sadi
1 meeting10February 2, 2008View Kim Sadi × Marina Lidiya →06 DestinationOpen career →Marina Lidiya
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
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- BridgeKim Sadi
- DestinationMarina Lidiya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- BridgeKim Sadi
- DestinationMarina Lidiya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeRushmi Chakravarthi
- BridgeBermet Duvanaeva
- BridgeKim Sadi
- DestinationMarina Lidiya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeGalina Voskoboeva
- BridgeZi Jun Yang
- BridgeKim Sadi
- DestinationMarina Lidiya
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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