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
Nilupul Goonasekera
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 3 meetings30May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
1 meeting01August 1, 2011View Mirjana Lucic × Jie Zheng →03 BridgeOpen career →Jie Zheng
1 meeting10April 20, 2005View Jie Zheng × Tatyana Ignatchenko →04 BridgeOpen career →Tatyana Ignatchenko
1 meeting10January 31, 2008View Tatyana Ignatchenko × Nilupul Goonasekera →05 DestinationOpen career →Nilupul Goonasekera
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeJie Zheng
- BridgeTatyana Ignatchenko
- DestinationNilupul Goonasekera
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeYe Ra Lee
- BridgeTatyana Ignatchenko
- DestinationNilupul Goonasekera
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeChin Wei Chan
- BridgeTatyana Ignatchenko
- DestinationNilupul Goonasekera
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeKa Po Tong
- BridgeVanessa Boey
- DestinationNilupul Goonasekera
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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