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
Monika Schneider
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 meeting01May 16, 2000View Monika Schneider × Tina Hergold →02 BridgeOpen career →Tina Hergold
1 meeting10November 4, 2000View Tina Hergold × Patricia Wartusch →03 BridgeOpen career →Patricia Wartusch
1 meeting01January 15, 2001View Patricia Wartusch × Tamarine Tanasugarn →04 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting01March 5, 1998View Tamarine Tanasugarn × 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.
- OriginMonika Schneider
- BridgeTina Hergold
- BridgePatricia Wartusch
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMonika Schneider
- BridgeTina Hergold
- BridgePatricia Wartusch
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMonika Schneider
- BridgeTina Hergold
- BridgePatricia Wartusch
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMonika Schneider
- BridgeTina Hergold
- BridgePatricia Wartusch
- BridgeLudmila Cervanova
- 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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