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
Tatevik Babayan
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 15 meetings114May 25, 1992 — August 24, 1998View Steffi Graf × Amanda Coetzer →02 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Coetzer
1 meeting10April 14, 1992View Amanda Coetzer × Helene Holter →03 BridgeOpen career →Helene Holter
1 meeting10May 8, 1998View Helene Holter × Evghenia Ablovatchi →04 BridgeOpen career →Evghenia Ablovatchi
1 meeting10April 30, 1999View Evghenia Ablovatchi × Tatevik Babayan →05 DestinationOpen career →Tatevik Babayan
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
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- DestinationTatevik Babayan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSandra Nacuk
- BridgeInes Zouabi
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- DestinationTatevik Babayan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnna Kournikova
- BridgeHila Rosen
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- DestinationTatevik Babayan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMonique Javer
- BridgeEdita Liachoviciute
- BridgePavlina Akritas
- DestinationTatevik Babayan
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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