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
Kokoro Takehara
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 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting10February 27, 1999View Kerry Anne Guse × Lisa Mcshea →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Mcshea
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Lisa Mcshea × Ryoko Takemura →04 BridgeOpen career →Ryoko Takemura
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Ryoko Takemura × Kokoro Takehara →05 DestinationOpen career →Kokoro Takehara
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
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgeMadita Suer
- DestinationKokoro Takehara
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeKristen Van Elden
- BridgeMadita Suer
- DestinationKokoro Takehara
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeGail Biggs
- BridgeRyoko Takemura
- DestinationKokoro Takehara
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeShinobu Asagoe
- BridgeRyoko Takemura
- DestinationKokoro Takehara
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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