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
Tilwith Di Girolami
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10August 4, 2025View Tilwith Di Girolami × Isis Louise Van Den Broek →02Open career → 1 meeting01June 9, 2025View Isis Louise Van Den Broek × Elena-Gabriela Ruse →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena-Gabriela Ruse
1 meeting01July 13, 2026View Elena-Gabriela Ruse × Kaitlin Quevedo →04 BridgeOpen career →Kaitlin Quevedo
1 meeting10April 21, 2026View Kaitlin Quevedo × Venus Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings23August 12, 1996 — June 21, 1999View Venus Williams × Steffi Graf →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTilwith Di Girolami
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAgnieszka Radwanska
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTilwith Di Girolami
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAgnieszka Radwanska
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTilwith Di Girolami
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAgnieszka Radwanska
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTilwith Di Girolami
- BridgeElena-Gabriela Ruse
- BridgeAgnieszka Radwanska
- 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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