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
Ewa Zerdecka
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 4 meetings31May 27, 1991 — February 18, 1998View Steffi Graf × Sabine Appelmans →02 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
1 meeting10May 11, 1993View Sabine Appelmans × Siobhan Nicholson →03 BridgeOpen career →Siobhan Nicholson
1 meeting10July 26, 1987View Siobhan Nicholson × Ewa Zerdecka →04 DestinationOpen career →Ewa Zerdecka
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
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeIlana Berger
- DestinationEwa Zerdecka
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- BridgeKarmen Skulj
- DestinationEwa Zerdecka
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMarcella Mesker
- BridgeSiobhan Nicholson
- DestinationEwa Zerdecka
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeIlana Berger
- DestinationEwa Zerdecka
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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