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
Tiffany Cornelius
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 meeting01February 7, 2014View Tiffany Cornelius × Kiki Bertens →02 BridgeOpen career →Kiki Bertens
2 meetings11August 31, 2015 — April 3, 2017View Kiki Bertens × Mirjana Lucic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03May 19, 1997 — June 21, 1999View Mirjana Lucic × 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.
- OriginTiffany Cornelius
- BridgeKiki Bertens
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTiffany Cornelius
- BridgeKiki Bertens
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTiffany Cornelius
- BridgeRichel Hogenkamp
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTiffany Cornelius
- BridgeMihaela Buzarnescu
- BridgeSerena Williams
- 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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