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 Myers
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 1 meeting10May 26, 1986View Steffi Graf × Marcella Mesker →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcella Mesker
1 meeting10November 14, 1983View Marcella Mesker × Karen Smith →03 BridgeOpen career →Karen Smith
1 meeting10August 2, 1982View Karen Smith × Maria Myers →04 DestinationOpen career →Maria Myers
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- BridgeKaren Smith
- DestinationMaria Myers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCatherine Suire
- BridgeJaime Kaplan
- DestinationMaria Myers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJulie Salmon
- BridgeJaime Kaplan
- DestinationMaria Myers
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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