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 Pavlidou
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 meeting01April 24, 2002View Maria Pavlidou × Olga Barabanschikova →02 BridgeOpen career →Olga Barabanschikova
2 meetings02June 23, 1997 — January 7, 2000View Olga Barabanschikova × Martina Hingis →03 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
9 meetings27February 14, 1995 — May 24, 1999View Martina Hingis × 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 Pavlidou
- BridgeOlga Barabanschikova
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaria Pavlidou
- BridgeOlga Barabanschikova
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaria Pavlidou
- BridgeOlga Barabanschikova
- BridgeKarina Habsudova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMaria Pavlidou
- BridgeOlga Barabanschikova
- BridgeRita Grande
- 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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