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
Daniela Alvarez
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 1 meeting10January 31, 1994View Steffi Graf × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting10April 26, 2003View Jana Nejedly × Marcela Ivon Rodezno Hernandez →03Open career → 2 meetings02May 10, 2000 — May 16, 2002View Marcela Ivon Rodezno Hernandez × Daniela Alvarez →04 DestinationOpen career →Daniela Alvarez
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeValentina Castro
- DestinationDaniela Alvarez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeMari Toro
- DestinationDaniela Alvarez
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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