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 Wagner
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 meeting01October 25, 2021View Stephanie Wagner × Liudmila Samsonova →02 BridgeOpen career →Liudmila Samsonova
2 meetings20June 30, 2025 — August 2, 2026View Liudmila Samsonova × Maya Joint →03 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting10June 29, 2026View Maya Joint × Serena Williams →04 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginStephanie Wagner
- BridgeLiudmila Samsonova
- BridgePauline Parmentier
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginStephanie Wagner
- BridgeLiudmila Samsonova
- BridgePauline Parmentier
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginStephanie Wagner
- BridgeLiudmila Samsonova
- BridgePauline Parmentier
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginStephanie Wagner
- BridgeLiudmila Samsonova
- BridgePauline Parmentier
- BridgeLindsay Davenport
- 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.
Reverse the route →