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
Stephanie Schaer
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 1 meeting01July 21, 2001View Stephanie Schaer × Jelena Kostanic Tosic →02 BridgeOpen career →Jelena Kostanic Tosic
2 meetings20April 23, 2005 — May 23, 2005View Jelena Kostanic Tosic × Tamarine Tanasugarn →03 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01March 5, 1998View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- OriginStephanie Schaer
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginStephanie Schaer
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginStephanie Schaer
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginStephanie Schaer
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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