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
Rafaella Baquerizo
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 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Serena Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
1 meeting01May 10, 2021View Serena Williams × Nadia Podoroska →03 BridgeOpen career →Nadia Podoroska
1 meeting10February 4, 2016View Nadia Podoroska × Anastasia Iamachkine →04 BridgeOpen career →Anastasia Iamachkine
1 meeting01February 5, 2016View Anastasia Iamachkine × Rafaella Baquerizo →05 DestinationOpen career →Rafaella Baquerizo
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeBeatriz Haddad Maia
- BridgeAnastasia Iamachkine
- DestinationRafaella Baquerizo
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeAnastasia Iamachkine
- DestinationRafaella Baquerizo
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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