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
Dawn Otto
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 meeting10July 27, 1981View Dawn Otto × Dee Ann Hansel →02 BridgeOpen career →Dee Ann Hansel
1 meeting01November 25, 1985View Dee Ann Hansel × Martina Navratilova →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Navratilova
18 meetings99August 27, 1985 — January 31, 1994View Martina Navratilova × 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.
- OriginDawn Otto
- BridgeDee Ann Hansel
- BridgeAnne Smith
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDawn Otto
- BridgeDee Ann Hansel
- BridgeSusan Mascarin
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDawn Otto
- BridgeDee Ann Hansel
- BridgeRobin White
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDawn Otto
- BridgeDee Ann Hansel
- BridgeEtsuko Inoue
- 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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