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
Maria Eugenia Brito
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 meetings30May 6, 1996 — January 18, 1999View Steffi Graf × Paola Suarez →02 BridgeOpen career →Paola Suarez
1 meeting10August 30, 1999View Paola Suarez × Melissa Middleton →03 BridgeOpen career →Melissa Middleton
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Melissa Middleton × Maria Eugenia Brito →04 DestinationOpen career →Maria Eugenia Brito
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- BridgeMelissa Middleton
- DestinationMaria Eugenia Brito
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLori Mcneil
- BridgeMelissa Middleton
- DestinationMaria Eugenia Brito
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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