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
Marlene Chumbez
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 meeting10July 3, 1983View Steffi Graf × Dianne Fromholtz →02 BridgeOpen career →Dianne Fromholtz
1 meeting10July 17, 1983View Dianne Fromholtz × Claudia Hernandez Salas →03 BridgeOpen career →Claudia Hernandez Salas
1 meeting10July 15, 1984View Claudia Hernandez Salas × Marlene Chumbez →04 DestinationOpen career →Marlene Chumbez
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
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeClaudia Hernandez Salas
- DestinationMarlene Chumbez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeClaudia Kohde Kilsch
- BridgeClaudia Hernandez Salas
- DestinationMarlene Chumbez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeRafeket Binyamini
- DestinationMarlene Chumbez
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeZina Garrison
- BridgeClaudia Hernandez Salas
- DestinationMarlene Chumbez
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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