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
Asha Burns
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10January 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting10February 27, 1999View Kerry Anne Guse × Lisa Mcshea →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Mcshea
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Lisa Mcshea × Sarah Borwell →04 BridgeOpen career →Sarah Borwell
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Sarah Borwell × Carolyn Mcgann →05 BridgeOpen career →Carolyn Mcgann
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Carolyn Mcgann × Asha Burns →06 DestinationOpen career →Asha Burns
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgeI Ting Wang
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- DestinationAsha Burns
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeShenay Perry
- BridgeSarah Borwell
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- DestinationAsha Burns
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeBryanne Stewart
- BridgeI Ting Wang
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- DestinationAsha Burns
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeBryanne Stewart
- BridgeI Ting Wang
- BridgeCarolyn Mcgann
- DestinationAsha Burns
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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