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
Nida Waseem
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10April 25, 2000View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Nirupama Vaidyanathan →03 BridgeOpen career →Nirupama Vaidyanathan
1 meeting10February 16, 1998View Nirupama Vaidyanathan × Nida Waseem →04 DestinationOpen career →Nida Waseem
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMarisue Jacutin
- DestinationNida Waseem
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- BridgeNirupama Vaidyanathan
- DestinationNida Waseem
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgeNirupama Vaidyanathan
- DestinationNida Waseem
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- BridgeSara Taweel
- DestinationNida Waseem
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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