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
Kago Phatshwane
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 36 meetings288August 22, 1988 — June 24, 1996View Steffi Graf × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10June 21, 1999View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Anna Foldenyi Dicker →03 BridgeOpen career →Anna Foldenyi Dicker
1 meeting10April 28, 1999View Anna Foldenyi Dicker × Kago Phatshwane →04 DestinationOpen career →Kago Phatshwane
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
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- BridgeAnna Foldenyi Dicker
- DestinationKago Phatshwane
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeIsmet Duygu Aksit Oal
- DestinationKago Phatshwane
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeErika De Lone
- BridgeAnna Foldenyi Dicker
- DestinationKago Phatshwane
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Schnyder
- BridgeAnna Foldenyi Dicker
- DestinationKago Phatshwane
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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