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
Beth Chaves
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 3 meetings30August 1, 1993 — May 19, 1997View Steffi Graf × Sandrine Testud →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
1 meeting10April 22, 1991View Sandrine Testud × Luciana Corsato Owsianka →03 BridgeOpen career →Luciana Corsato Owsianka
1 meeting10March 23, 1981View Luciana Corsato Owsianka × Beth Chaves →04 DestinationOpen career →Beth Chaves
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeLuciana Corsato Owsianka
- DestinationBeth Chaves
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeIrina Spirlea
- BridgeLuciana Corsato Owsianka
- DestinationBeth Chaves
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeLuciana Corsato Owsianka
- DestinationBeth Chaves
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeLuciana Corsato Owsianka
- DestinationBeth Chaves
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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