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
Ellen Walliser
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 21 meetings201May 23, 1988 — March 18, 1999View Steffi Graf × Natalia Zvereva →02 BridgeOpen career →Natalia Zvereva
1 meeting10May 16, 1988View Natalia Zvereva × Olga Votavova →03 BridgeOpen career →Olga Votavova
1 meeting10September 23, 1985View Olga Votavova × Ellen Walliser →04 DestinationOpen career →Ellen Walliser
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
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- DestinationEllen Walliser
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- DestinationEllen Walliser
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- DestinationEllen Walliser
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- DestinationEllen Walliser
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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