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
Orie Sasaki
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 meeting01September 8, 1997View Orie Sasaki × Sachie Umehara →02 BridgeOpen career →Sachie Umehara
1 meeting10September 8, 1997View Sachie Umehara × Amanda Grahame →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Grahame
1 meeting01January 14, 2002View Amanda Grahame × Magui Serna →04 BridgeOpen career →Magui Serna
3 meetings12May 26, 1997 — August 17, 1998View Magui Serna × 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.
- OriginOrie Sasaki
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginOrie Sasaki
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeBarbara Rittner
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginOrie Sasaki
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeMary Pierce
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginOrie Sasaki
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- 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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