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
Courtenay Chapman
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 meetings21May 26, 1997 — August 17, 1998View Steffi Graf × Magui Serna →02 BridgeOpen career →Magui Serna
1 meeting10July 7, 2003View Magui Serna × Conchita Martinez Granados →03Open career → 1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Conchita Martinez Granados × Nadine Schlotterer →04 BridgeOpen career →Nadine Schlotterer
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Nadine Schlotterer × Courtenay Chapman →05 DestinationOpen career →Courtenay Chapman
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRuxandra Dragomir Ilie
- BridgeAna Catarina Nogueira
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
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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