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
Nagi Hanatani
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 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Serena Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
1 meeting01May 17, 2021View Serena Williams × Katerina Siniakova →03 BridgeOpen career →Katerina Siniakova
1 meeting10August 23, 2021View Katerina Siniakova × Nagi Hanatani →04 DestinationOpen career →Nagi Hanatani
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeKaterina Siniakova
- DestinationNagi Hanatani
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKim Clijsters
- BridgeKaterina Siniakova
- DestinationNagi Hanatani
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKaterina Siniakova
- DestinationNagi Hanatani
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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