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
Doerte Kreutzer
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 14 meetings122May 14, 1984 — June 25, 1990View Steffi Graf × Claudia Kohde Kilsch →02 BridgeOpen career →Claudia Kohde Kilsch
1 meeting10May 23, 1983View Claudia Kohde Kilsch × Cornelia Dries →03 BridgeOpen career →Cornelia Dries
1 meeting10July 24, 1980View Cornelia Dries × Doerte Kreutzer →04 DestinationOpen career →Doerte Kreutzer
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
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeCornelia Dries
- DestinationDoerte Kreutzer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- BridgeCornelia Dries
- DestinationDoerte Kreutzer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeIva Budarova
- BridgeCornelia Dries
- DestinationDoerte Kreutzer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCarina Karlsson
- BridgeCornelia Dries
- DestinationDoerte Kreutzer
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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