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
Sagit Doron
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 20, 1986View Sagit Doron × Li Lan Duan →02 BridgeOpen career →Li Lan Duan
1 meeting01July 20, 1986View Li Lan Duan × Akiko Kijimuta →03 BridgeOpen career →Akiko Kijimuta
2 meetings02September 8, 1986 — October 1, 1989View Akiko Kijimuta × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSagit Doron
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSagit Doron
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- 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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