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
Amani Khalifa
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 3 meetings30April 7, 1986 — May 15, 1989View Steffi Graf × Tine Scheuer Larsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Tine Scheuer Larsen
1 meeting10May 10, 1995View Tine Scheuer Larsen × Odeta Naujokaite →03 BridgeOpen career →Odeta Naujokaite
1 meeting10March 28, 1996View Odeta Naujokaite × Kelesitse Makgale →04 BridgeOpen career →Kelesitse Makgale
1 meeting01April 30, 2003View Kelesitse Makgale × Amani Khalifa →05 DestinationOpen career →Amani Khalifa
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeNanne Dahlman
- BridgeAngelika Schadler
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- DestinationAmani Khalifa
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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