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
Barbara Pollet
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20May 17, 1982 — May 26, 1986View Steffi Graf × Andrea Betzner →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Betzner
1 meeting10July 15, 1985View Andrea Betzner × Barbara Pollet →03 DestinationOpen career →Barbara Pollet
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatricia Tarabini
- DestinationBarbara Pollet
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRenata Sasak
- DestinationBarbara Pollet
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMariana Perez Roldan
- DestinationBarbara Pollet
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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