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
Helena Besovic
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 meeting10May 14, 2001View Helena Besovic × Noha Mohsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Noha Mohsen
1 meeting01April 26, 2004View Noha Mohsen × Amanda Keen →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Keen
1 meeting01June 16, 2003View Amanda Keen × Amy Frazier →04 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
7 meetings16June 24, 1991 — August 2, 1999View Amy Frazier × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginHelena Besovic
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginHelena Besovic
- BridgeNoha Mohsen
- BridgeAmanda Keen
- BridgeAi Sugiyama
- 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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