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
Maria Marta Gallinal
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 15, 1984View Maria Marta Gallinal × Natasha Reva →02 BridgeOpen career →Natasha Reva
1 meeting01January 23, 1984View Natasha Reva × Marcella Mesker →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcella Mesker
1 meeting01May 26, 1986View Marcella Mesker × Steffi Graf →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMaria Marta Gallinal
- BridgeNatasha Reva
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaria Marta Gallinal
- BridgeNatasha Reva
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaria Marta Gallinal
- BridgeNatasha Reva
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaria Marta Gallinal
- BridgeNatasha Reva
- BridgeVicki Nelson
- 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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