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
Idunn Hertzberg
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 8 meetings80May 27, 1991 — May 24, 1999View Steffi Graf × Magdalena Maleeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Maleeva
1 meeting10April 21, 2003View Magdalena Maleeva × Margalita Chakhnashvili →03 BridgeOpen career →Margalita Chakhnashvili
1 meeting10April 29, 2005View Margalita Chakhnashvili × Idunn Hertzberg →04 DestinationOpen career →Idunn Hertzberg
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Mall
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationIdunn Hertzberg
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Mall
- BridgeAurelija Miseviciute
- DestinationIdunn Hertzberg
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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