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
F Egan
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 2 meetings20August 1, 1994 — May 6, 1996View Steffi Graf × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
1 meeting01April 20, 1987View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Claudia Monteiro →03 BridgeOpen career →Claudia Monteiro
1 meeting10November 9, 1981View Claudia Monteiro × Rhona Howett →04 BridgeOpen career →Rhona Howett
1 meeting10July 7, 1980View Rhona Howett × F Egan →05 DestinationOpen career →F Egan
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
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeOlga Tsarbopoulou
- BridgeRhona Howett
- DestinationF Egan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeOlga Tsarbopoulou
- BridgeRhona Howett
- DestinationF Egan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- BridgeOlga Tsarbopoulou
- BridgeRhona Howett
- DestinationF Egan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeClaudia Monteiro
- BridgeRhona Howett
- DestinationF Egan
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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