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
Olga Ianchuk
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 5 meetings32August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
1 meeting10March 20, 2017View Venus Williams × Patricia Maria Tig →03 BridgeOpen career →Patricia Maria Tig
1 meeting10July 27, 2015View Patricia Maria Tig × Olga Ianchuk →04 DestinationOpen career →Olga Ianchuk
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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