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
Mia Radulovic
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 14 meetings131May 29, 1989 — May 27, 1996View Steffi Graf × Conchita Martinez →02 BridgeOpen career →Conchita Martinez
1 meeting10February 23, 2004View Conchita Martinez × Mervana Jugic Salkic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mervana Jugic Salkic
1 meeting10April 29, 2006View Mervana Jugic Salkic × Nihal Tarek Saleh →04 BridgeOpen career →Nihal Tarek Saleh
1 meeting01April 26, 2008View Nihal Tarek Saleh × Mia Radulovic →05 DestinationOpen career →Mia Radulovic
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeKathinka Von Deichmann
- BridgeNihal Tarek Saleh
- DestinationMia Radulovic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena Brioukhovets
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- BridgeNihal Tarek Saleh
- DestinationMia Radulovic
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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