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
Donna Bradshaw
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 meeting01May 6, 1996View Donna Bradshaw × Joelle Schad →02 BridgeOpen career →Joelle Schad
1 meeting01July 23, 1996View Joelle Schad × Martina Hingis →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
9 meetings27February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Martina Hingis × 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.
- OriginDonna Bradshaw
- BridgeJoelle Schad
- BridgeMonique Javer
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDonna Bradshaw
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeLaura Arraya
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDonna Bradshaw
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginDonna Bradshaw
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- BridgePatricia Tarabini
- 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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