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
Karla Mancinas
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10January 31, 1994View Steffi Graf × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
2 meetings20April 15, 1998 — April 27, 2002View Jana Nejedly × Daniela Olivera →03 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Olivera
1 meeting01January 28, 2002View Daniela Olivera × Helga Vieira →04 BridgeOpen career →Helga Vieira
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Helga Vieira × Karla Mancinas →05 DestinationOpen career →Karla Mancinas
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMagui Serna
- BridgeHelga Vieira
- DestinationKarla Mancinas
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- BridgeHelga Vieira
- DestinationKarla Mancinas
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- BridgeHelga Vieira
- DestinationKarla Mancinas
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeHelga Vieira
- DestinationKarla Mancinas
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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