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
Wozuko Mdlulwa
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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 meeting01August 27, 2007View Martina Hingis × Victoria Azarenka →03 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Azarenka
1 meeting10March 5, 2025View Victoria Azarenka × Clervie Ngounoue →04 BridgeOpen career →Clervie Ngounoue
1 meeting10June 23, 2025View Clervie Ngounoue × Melisa Ercan →05 BridgeOpen career →Melisa Ercan
1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Melisa Ercan × Celia Anson Sanchez →06 BridgeOpen career →Celia Anson Sanchez
1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Celia Anson Sanchez × Wozuko Mdlulwa →07 DestinationOpen career →Wozuko Mdlulwa
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeClervie Ngounoue
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- BridgeCelia Anson Sanchez
- DestinationWozuko Mdlulwa
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- BridgeCelia Anson Sanchez
- DestinationWozuko Mdlulwa
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeClervie Ngounoue
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- BridgeCelia Anson Sanchez
- DestinationWozuko Mdlulwa
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- BridgeCelia Anson Sanchez
- DestinationWozuko Mdlulwa
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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