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
Sandrella Droubi
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
3 meetings30January 18, 1999 — August 6, 2001View Martina Hingis × Lilia Osterloh →03 BridgeOpen career →Lilia Osterloh
1 meeting10September 10, 2001View Lilia Osterloh × Tagifano Soonalole →04 BridgeOpen career →Tagifano Soonalole
1 meeting10April 27, 2000View Tagifano Soonalole × Salima Esmat Salman →05 BridgeOpen career →Salima Esmat Salman
1 meeting01February 21, 1998View Salima Esmat Salman × Sandrella Droubi →06 DestinationOpen career →Sandrella Droubi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeLilia Osterloh
- BridgeTagifano Soonalole
- BridgeSalima Esmat Salman
- DestinationSandrella Droubi
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLilia Osterloh
- BridgeTagifano Soonalole
- BridgeSalima Esmat Salman
- DestinationSandrella Droubi
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeArchana Reddy
- BridgeSalima Esmat Salman
- DestinationSandrella Droubi
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeLilia Osterloh
- BridgeTagifano Soonalole
- BridgeSalima Esmat Salman
- DestinationSandrella Droubi
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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