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
Y kit Nicole Tan
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 1 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10January 30, 2008View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Ling Zhang →03 BridgeOpen career →Ling Zhang
1 meeting10July 22, 2017View Ling Zhang × Theiviya Selvarajoo →04 BridgeOpen career →Theiviya Selvarajoo
1 meeting10July 20, 2017View Theiviya Selvarajoo × Y kit Nicole Tan →05 DestinationOpen career →Y kit Nicole Tan
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLing Zhang
- BridgeAbigail Tere Apisah
- DestinationY kit Nicole Tan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- DestinationY kit Nicole Tan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- BridgeAbigail Tere Apisah
- DestinationY kit Nicole Tan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- BridgeAbigail Tere Apisah
- DestinationY kit Nicole Tan
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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