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
Ines Fess
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 4 meetings22December 9, 1981 — October 7, 1991View Steffi Graf × Eva Pfaff →02 BridgeOpen career →Eva Pfaff
1 meeting10June 25, 1980View Eva Pfaff × Amreeta Ahluwalia →03 BridgeOpen career →Amreeta Ahluwalia
1 meeting10July 24, 1980View Amreeta Ahluwalia × Ines Fess →04 DestinationOpen career →Ines Fess
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
- BridgeKate Latham
- BridgeAmreeta Ahluwalia
- DestinationInes Fess
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAndrea Temesvari
- BridgeAmreeta Ahluwalia
- DestinationInes Fess
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- BridgeAmreeta Ahluwalia
- DestinationInes Fess
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRenata Sasak
- BridgeAmreeta Ahluwalia
- DestinationInes Fess
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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