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
Alexia Gera
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 20, 1986View Alexia Gera × Yayuk Basuki →02 BridgeOpen career →Yayuk Basuki
4 meetings04June 24, 1991 — August 26, 1996View Yayuk Basuki × Steffi Graf →03 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAlexia Gera
- BridgeNanne Dahlman
- 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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