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
Asha Burns
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 meeting01March 3, 2003View Asha Burns × Carolyn Mcgann →02 BridgeOpen career →Carolyn Mcgann
1 meeting01March 3, 2003View Carolyn Mcgann × Sarah Borwell →03 BridgeOpen career →Sarah Borwell
1 meeting01March 3, 2003View Sarah Borwell × Lisa Mcshea →04 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Mcshea
1 meeting01February 27, 1999View Lisa Mcshea × Kerry Anne Guse →05 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting01January 16, 1989View Kerry Anne Guse × 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.
- OriginAsha Burns
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- BridgeSarah Borwell
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgeYone Kamio
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAsha Burns
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- BridgeSarah Borwell
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgePetra Begerow
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAsha Burns
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- BridgeSarah Borwell
- BridgeShenay Perry
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginAsha Burns
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- BridgeSarah Borwell
- BridgeShenay Perry
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- 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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