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
Ina Sartz
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 meeting10August 28, 1995View Steffi Graf × Rita Grande →02 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
1 meeting01June 6, 1994View Rita Grande × Julie Pullin →03 BridgeOpen career →Julie Pullin
1 meeting10April 11, 2002View Julie Pullin × Ina Sartz →04 DestinationOpen career →Ina Sartz
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
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeJulie Pullin
- DestinationIna Sartz
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeJulie Pullin
- DestinationIna Sartz
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLudmila Cervanova
- BridgeFrederica Piedade
- DestinationIna Sartz
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMagui Serna
- BridgeJulie Pullin
- DestinationIna Sartz
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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