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
Savini Jayasuriya
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
5 meetings41February 7, 2005 — February 3, 2010View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Akgul Amanmuradova →03 BridgeOpen career →Akgul Amanmuradova
2 meetings02February 10, 2018 — March 5, 2020View Akgul Amanmuradova × Aldila Sutjiadi →04 BridgeOpen career →Aldila Sutjiadi
1 meeting10February 6, 2018View Aldila Sutjiadi × Safa Safar →05 BridgeOpen career →Safa Safar
1 meeting01February 7, 2018View Safa Safar × Savini Jayasuriya →06 DestinationOpen career →Savini Jayasuriya
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
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- BridgeSafa Safar
- DestinationSavini Jayasuriya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- BridgeSafa Safar
- DestinationSavini Jayasuriya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- BridgeSafa Safar
- DestinationSavini Jayasuriya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeAkgul Amanmuradova
- BridgeAldila Sutjiadi
- BridgeSafa Safar
- DestinationSavini Jayasuriya
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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