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
Safa Safar
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
2 meetings20May 16, 2016 — January 16, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × Qiang Wang →03 BridgeOpen career →Qiang Wang
2 meetings20March 4, 2020 — April 15, 2022View Qiang Wang × Aldila Sutjiadi →04 BridgeOpen career →Aldila Sutjiadi
1 meeting10February 6, 2018View Aldila Sutjiadi × Safa Safar →05 DestinationOpen career →Safa Safar
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
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- DestinationSafa Safar
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeQiang Wang
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- DestinationSafa Safar
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- DestinationSafa Safar
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- DestinationSafa Safar
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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