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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Nicola Corn
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

303 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01March 27, 1996
    View Nicola Corn × Ipek Senoglu
  2. 2 meetings02May 13, 1991 — November 9, 1992
    View Elena Brioukhovets × Steffi 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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