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
Francine Harvey
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 meeting01February 25, 1999View Francine Harvey × Alexandra Chong →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexandra Chong
1 meeting01April 30, 1998View Alexandra Chong × Yoannis Montesino →03 BridgeOpen career →Yoannis Montesino
1 meeting01April 28, 2000View Yoannis Montesino × Florencia Labat →04 BridgeOpen career →Florencia Labat
2 meetings02August 31, 1992 — May 10, 1993View Florencia Labat × 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.
- OriginFrancine Harvey
- BridgeAlexandra Chong
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- BridgePatricia Tarabini
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginFrancine Harvey
- BridgeAlexandra Chong
- BridgeMari Toro
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginFrancine Harvey
- BridgeSasha Fisher
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginFrancine Harvey
- BridgeElena Branker
- BridgeJoelle Schad
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- 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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