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
Gaobolae Seleka
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 1 meeting10November 2, 1998View Steffi Graf × Dominique Monami →02 BridgeOpen career →Dominique Monami
1 meeting10April 19, 1994View Dominique Monami × Stela Penciu →03 BridgeOpen career →Stela Penciu
1 meeting10May 10, 1995View Stela Penciu × Gaobolae Seleka →04 DestinationOpen career →Gaobolae Seleka
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
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKarin Ptaszek
- DestinationGaobolae Seleka
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeGigi Fernandez
- BridgeKarin Ptaszek
- DestinationGaobolae Seleka
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeNicole Bradtke
- BridgeKarin Ptaszek
- DestinationGaobolae Seleka
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJudith Wiesner
- BridgeKarin Ptaszek
- DestinationGaobolae Seleka
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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