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
Blanka Kumbarova
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 27, 1998View Blanka Kumbarova × Germana Di Natale →02 BridgeOpen career →Germana Di Natale
1 meeting01May 10, 1999View Germana Di Natale × Elena Likhovtseva →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena Likhovtseva
3 meetings03February 28, 1994 — February 2, 1999View Elena Likhovtseva × Steffi Graf →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginBlanka Kumbarova
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginBlanka Kumbarova
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- BridgeMary Pierce
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginBlanka Kumbarova
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- BridgeMarlene Weingartner
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginBlanka Kumbarova
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- BridgeJanette Husarova
- 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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