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
Elena Trifu
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01September 17, 1974View Elena Trifu × Valeria Balaj →02 BridgeOpen career →Valeria Balaj
1 meeting01September 17, 1974View Valeria Balaj × Virginia Ruzici →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Ruzici
1 meeting01October 5, 1987View Virginia Ruzici × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →04 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
2 meetings02August 1, 1994 — May 6, 1996View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginElena Trifu
- BridgeValeria Balaj
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginElena Trifu
- BridgeValeria Balaj
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginElena Trifu
- BridgeValeria Balaj
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginElena Trifu
- BridgeValeria Balaj
- BridgeVirginia Ruzici
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- 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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