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
Simone Wichman
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10January 29, 2007View Martina Hingis × Nicole Pratt →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Pratt
1 meeting10July 22, 1999View Nicole Pratt × Hsueh Li Hsu →04 BridgeOpen career →Hsueh Li Hsu
1 meeting10February 22, 1996View Hsueh Li Hsu × Simone Wichman →05 DestinationOpen career →Simone Wichman
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
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- BridgeHsueh Li Hsu
- DestinationSimone Wichman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeShi Ting Wang
- BridgeNatalia Nikitina
- DestinationSimone Wichman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeShi Ting Wang
- BridgeFarah Dayoub
- DestinationSimone Wichman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeKate Warne Holland
- BridgeHsueh Li Hsu
- DestinationSimone Wichman
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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