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
Getten
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 9 meetings81April 7, 1986 — August 21, 1989View Steffi Graf × Hana Mandlikova →02 BridgeOpen career →Hana Mandlikova
2 meetings20July 21, 1980 — August 26, 1980View Hana Mandlikova × Liliana Giussani →03 BridgeOpen career →Liliana Giussani
1 meeting10July 5, 1980View Liliana Giussani × Elisabeth Randier →04 BridgeOpen career →Elisabeth Randier
1 meeting10July 5, 1980View Elisabeth Randier × Getten →05— DestinationOpen career →Getten
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
- BridgeChristiane Jolissaint
- BridgeLiliana Giussani
- BridgeElisabeth Randier
- —DestinationGetten
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCatherine Tanvier
- BridgeLiliana Giussani
- BridgeElisabeth Randier
- —DestinationGetten
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCatherine Suire
- BridgeLiliana Giussani
- BridgeElisabeth Randier
- —DestinationGetten
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKathy Rinaldi Stunkel
- BridgeLiliana Giussani
- BridgeElisabeth Randier
- —DestinationGetten
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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