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
Karina Heck
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 meeting01July 26, 1987View Karina Heck × Monica Wiese →02 BridgeOpen career →Monica Wiese
1 meeting01July 26, 1987View Monica Wiese × Jeong Myung Lee →03 BridgeOpen career →Jeong Myung Lee
1 meeting01July 26, 1987View Jeong Myung Lee × Claudia Kohde Kilsch →04 BridgeOpen career →Claudia Kohde Kilsch
14 meetings212May 14, 1984 — June 25, 1990View Claudia Kohde Kilsch × 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.
- OriginKarina Heck
- BridgeMonica Wiese
- BridgeJeong Myung Lee
- BridgeCatherine Suire
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginKarina Heck
- BridgeMonica Wiese
- BridgeJeong Myung Lee
- BridgeNaoko Sawamatsu
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginKarina Heck
- BridgeMonica Wiese
- BridgeLucila Becerra
- BridgeCarina Karlsson
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginKarina Heck
- BridgeMonica Wiese
- BridgeLucila Becerra
- BridgeIl Soon Kim
- 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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