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
Michele Wagner
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 meetings30July 13, 1996 — February 15, 1999View Steffi Graf × Barbara Schett →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
1 meeting10April 20, 1994View Barbara Schett × Joana Pedroso →03 BridgeOpen career →Joana Pedroso
2 meetings11May 9, 1995 — May 13, 1995View Joana Pedroso × Michele Wagner →04 DestinationOpen career →Michele Wagner
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeClare Wood
- BridgeLiina Suurvarik
- DestinationMichele Wagner
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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