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
Karen Shin
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20August 26, 1986 — March 11, 1994View Steffi Graf × Beverly Bowes →02 BridgeOpen career →Beverly Bowes
1 meeting10April 2, 1990View Beverly Bowes × Karen Shin →03 DestinationOpen career →Karen Shin
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeClaudia Porwik
- DestinationKaren Shin
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMarianne Werdel Witmeyer
- DestinationKaren Shin
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatty Fendick
- DestinationKaren Shin
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeShaun Stafford
- DestinationKaren Shin
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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