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
Tatevik Babayan
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 meeting01April 30, 1999View Tatevik Babayan × Evghenia Ablovatchi →02 BridgeOpen career →Evghenia Ablovatchi
1 meeting01May 5, 1998View Evghenia Ablovatchi × Margalita Chakhnashvili →03 BridgeOpen career →Margalita Chakhnashvili
1 meeting01April 21, 2003View Margalita Chakhnashvili × Magdalena Maleeva →04 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Maleeva
8 meetings08May 27, 1991 — May 24, 1999View Magdalena Maleeva × 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.
- OriginTatevik Babayan
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- BridgeAnne Mall
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTatevik Babayan
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- BridgeHila Rosen
- BridgeAnna Kournikova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTatevik Babayan
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- BridgeInes Zouabi
- BridgeSandra Nacuk
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTatevik Babayan
- BridgeEvghenia Ablovatchi
- BridgeHelene Holter
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- 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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