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
Valentina Starkova
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 meeting10January 30, 2008View Valentina Starkova × Jenneta Halliyeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Jenneta Halliyeva
1 meeting01April 20, 2004View Jenneta Halliyeva × Rui Jing Wong →03 BridgeOpen career →Rui Jing Wong
2 meetings11March 12, 1997 — February 17, 1998View Rui Jing Wong × Chin Bee Khoo →04 BridgeOpen career →Chin Bee Khoo
1 meeting01April 20, 1992View Chin Bee Khoo × Yayuk Basuki →05 BridgeOpen career →Yayuk Basuki
4 meetings04June 24, 1991 — August 26, 1996View Yayuk Basuki × 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.
- OriginValentina Starkova
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- BridgeRui Jing Wong
- BridgeSara Taweel
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginValentina Starkova
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- BridgeRui Jing Wong
- BridgeTatiana Babina
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginValentina Starkova
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- BridgeRui Jing Wong
- BridgeTatiana Babina
- BridgeClaudine Toleafoa
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginValentina Starkova
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- BridgeStefanie Tan
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- 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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