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
Lara Howes
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 3 meetings30August 1, 1993 — May 19, 1997View Steffi Graf × Sandrine Testud →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
1 meeting01October 14, 1996View Sandrine Testud × Li Ling Chen →03 BridgeOpen career →Li Ling Chen
1 meeting10March 15, 1997View Li Ling Chen × Lara Howes →04 DestinationOpen career →Lara Howes
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
- BridgeMary Pierce
- BridgeLi Ling Chen
- DestinationLara Howes
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeLi Ling Chen
- DestinationLara Howes
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeLi Ling Chen
- DestinationLara Howes
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKarin Kschwendt
- BridgeLi Ling Chen
- DestinationLara Howes
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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