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
Ofelya Poghosyan
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10January 16, 2006View Martina Hingis × Emma Laine →03 BridgeOpen career →Emma Laine
1 meeting10April 23, 2008View Emma Laine × Stefana Lakicevic →04 BridgeOpen career →Stefana Lakicevic
1 meeting10April 24, 2008View Stefana Lakicevic × Ofelya Poghosyan →05 DestinationOpen career →Ofelya Poghosyan
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeUrszula Radwanska
- BridgeTatia Mikadze
- DestinationOfelya Poghosyan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAnastasija Sevastova
- BridgeSandra Kristjansdottir
- DestinationOfelya Poghosyan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAnna Tatishvili
- BridgeTatia Mikadze
- DestinationOfelya Poghosyan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeUrszula Radwanska
- BridgeTatia Mikadze
- DestinationOfelya Poghosyan
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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