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
Lara Alsamman
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 meeting01March 5, 2002View Lara Alsamman × Agustine Limanto →02 BridgeOpen career →Agustine Limanto
1 meeting01October 2, 1995View Agustine Limanto × Annabel Ellwood →03 BridgeOpen career →Annabel Ellwood
1 meeting01June 9, 1997View Annabel Ellwood × Kerry Anne Guse →04 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting01January 16, 1989View Kerry Anne Guse × 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.
- OriginLara Alsamman
- BridgeAgustine Limanto
- BridgeAnnabel Ellwood
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLara Alsamman
- BridgeAgustine Limanto
- BridgeAnnabel Ellwood
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLara Alsamman
- BridgeAgustine Limanto
- BridgeAnnabel Ellwood
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLara Alsamman
- BridgeAgustine Limanto
- BridgeAnnabel Ellwood
- BridgeMagui Serna
- 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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