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
Kirsten Dreyer
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 3 meetings30October 15, 1984 — October 25, 1988View Steffi Graf × Iva Budarova →02 BridgeOpen career →Iva Budarova
1 meeting10October 7, 1985View Iva Budarova × Kirsten Dreyer →03 DestinationOpen career →Kirsten Dreyer
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
- BridgeGigi Fernandez
- DestinationKirsten Dreyer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSara Gomer
- DestinationKirsten Dreyer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCammy Macgregor
- DestinationKirsten Dreyer
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRonni Reis
- DestinationKirsten Dreyer
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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