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
Trevine Sellier
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 5 meetings32August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Steffi Graf × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
1 meeting10March 20, 2017View Venus Williams × Beatriz Haddad Maia →03 BridgeOpen career →Beatriz Haddad Maia
2 meetings20February 8, 2018 — April 13, 2022View Beatriz Haddad Maia × Kirsten Andrea Weedon →04 BridgeOpen career →Kirsten Andrea Weedon
1 meeting10April 10, 2014View Kirsten Andrea Weedon × Gabriela Gonzalez →05 BridgeOpen career →Gabriela Gonzalez
1 meeting10May 21, 2011View Gabriela Gonzalez × Trevine Sellier →06 DestinationOpen career →Trevine Sellier
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeGabriela Gonzalez
- DestinationTrevine Sellier
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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