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
Sanja Ancic
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
7 meetings43January 18, 1999 — January 29, 2007View Martina Hingis × Elena Dementieva →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena Dementieva
1 meeting10July 15, 2006View Elena Dementieva × Sanja Ancic →04 DestinationOpen career →Sanja Ancic
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSanja Ancic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeIveta Benesova
- DestinationSanja Ancic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationSanja Ancic
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationSanja Ancic
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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