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
Mariana Demichelli Vergara
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 31, 1994View Steffi Graf × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting10April 24, 2002View Jana Nejedly × Nikkita Fountain →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikkita Fountain
1 meeting10April 24, 2008View Nikkita Fountain × Caitlin Gordon →04 BridgeOpen career →Caitlin Gordon
1 meeting01April 22, 2010View Caitlin Gordon × Mariana Demichelli Vergara →05 DestinationOpen career →Mariana Demichelli Vergara
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeNikkita Fountain
- BridgeCaitlin Gordon
- DestinationMariana Demichelli Vergara
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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