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
S Baccar
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10September 30, 2002View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Kelly Liggan →03 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Liggan
1 meeting10April 9, 2002View Kelly Liggan × Razalia Phethu →04 BridgeOpen career →Razalia Phethu
1 meeting01May 18, 2001View Razalia Phethu × S Baccar →05 DestinationOpen career →S Baccar
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
- BridgeCorina Morariu
- BridgeKelly Liggan
- BridgeRazalia Phethu
- DestinationS Baccar
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRadomira Zrubakova
- BridgeRuta Deduraite
- BridgeRazalia Phethu
- DestinationS Baccar
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRadomira Zrubakova
- BridgeRuta Deduraite
- BridgeMeriem Zitouni
- DestinationS Baccar
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeElena Brioukhovets
- BridgeCharlotte Aagaard
- BridgeAzza Abbou
- DestinationS Baccar
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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