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
Steffi Graf
reaches
Alena Paulenkova
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 meeting10March 5, 1998View Steffi Graf × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
2 meetings20March 3, 1996View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Esme De Villiers →03 BridgeOpen career →Esme De Villiers
1 meeting10April 12, 1997View Esme De Villiers × Alena Paulenkova →04 DestinationOpen career →Alena Paulenkova
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBarbara Schwartz
- BridgeShelley Stephens
- DestinationAlena Paulenkova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKirrily Sharpe
- BridgeEsme De Villiers
- DestinationAlena Paulenkova
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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