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
Virag Nemeth
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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
2 meetings11August 27, 2001 — June 25, 2007View Martina Hingis × Laura Granville →03 BridgeOpen career →Laura Granville
1 meeting10May 19, 2003View Laura Granville × Virag Nemeth →04 DestinationOpen career →Virag Nemeth
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- DestinationVirag Nemeth
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- DestinationVirag Nemeth
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- DestinationVirag Nemeth
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMarta Marrero
- DestinationVirag Nemeth
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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