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 Jose Olave
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 7 meetings61June 24, 1991 — August 2, 1999View Steffi Graf × Amy Frazier →02 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
1 meeting10October 17, 1988View Amy Frazier × Svetlana Cherneva →03 BridgeOpen career →Svetlana Cherneva
1 meeting10July 15, 1984View Svetlana Cherneva × Maria Jose Olave →04 DestinationOpen career →Maria Jose Olave
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeSvetlana Cherneva
- DestinationMaria Jose Olave
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeSvetlana Cherneva
- DestinationMaria Jose Olave
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMarcella Mesker
- BridgeSvetlana Cherneva
- DestinationMaria Jose Olave
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeSvetlana Cherneva
- DestinationMaria Jose Olave
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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