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
Fahlbusch
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 36 meetings288August 22, 1988 — June 24, 1996View Steffi Graf × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10May 5, 1986View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Myriam Schropp →03 BridgeOpen career →Myriam Schropp
1 meeting10August 31, 1981View Myriam Schropp × Benyamini →04— BridgeOpen career →Benyamini
1 meeting10August 31, 1981View Benyamini × Fahlbusch →05 DestinationOpen career →Fahlbusch
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
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMyriam Schropp
- —BridgeBenyamini
- DestinationFahlbusch
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMarcella Mesker
- BridgeMyriam Schropp
- —BridgeBenyamini
- DestinationFahlbusch
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeMyriam Schropp
- —BridgeBenyamini
- DestinationFahlbusch
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeMyriam Schropp
- —BridgeBenyamini
- DestinationFahlbusch
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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