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
Zani Barnard
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 meeting01February 8, 2019View Zani Barnard × Ana Filipa Santos →02 BridgeOpen career →Ana Filipa Santos
1 meeting01February 7, 2019View Ana Filipa Santos × Eleonora Molinaro →03 BridgeOpen career →Eleonora Molinaro
1 meeting10February 5, 2020View Eleonora Molinaro × Johanna Larsson →04 BridgeOpen career →Johanna Larsson
3 meetings03April 20, 2013 — August 29, 2016View Johanna Larsson × Serena Williams →05 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena 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.
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeJohanna Larsson
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeJohanna Larsson
- BridgeBrenda Schultz Mccarthy
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeJohanna Larsson
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginZani Barnard
- BridgeAna Filipa Santos
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeJohanna Larsson
- BridgeVenus 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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