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
Valentina Starkova
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 9 meetings72February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
4 meetings22February 20, 2006 — August 6, 2007View Martina Hingis × Sania Mirza →03 BridgeOpen career →Sania Mirza
1 meeting10February 4, 2010View Sania Mirza × Stefanie Tan →04 BridgeOpen career →Stefanie Tan
1 meeting10January 31, 2008View Stefanie Tan × Jenneta Halliyeva →05 BridgeOpen career →Jenneta Halliyeva
1 meeting01January 30, 2008View Jenneta Halliyeva × Valentina Starkova →06 DestinationOpen career →Valentina Starkova
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeGurianna Korinihona
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- DestinationValentina Starkova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeStefanie Tan
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- DestinationValentina Starkova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeGurianna Korinihona
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- DestinationValentina Starkova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeTatiana Babina
- BridgeRui Jing Wong
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- DestinationValentina Starkova
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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