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
Monica Pagni
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 meeting10April 11, 1988View Steffi Graf × Pilar Vasquez →02 BridgeOpen career →Pilar Vasquez
1 meeting10July 21, 1980View Pilar Vasquez × Stefania Cicognani →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefania Cicognani
1 meeting10August 4, 1980View Stefania Cicognani × Monica Pagni →04 DestinationOpen career →Monica Pagni
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
- BridgePilar Vasquez
- BridgeMarina Crescenti
- DestinationMonica Pagni
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAndrea Betzner
- BridgeStefania Cicognani
- DestinationMonica Pagni
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatricia Medrado
- BridgeStefania Cicognani
- DestinationMonica Pagni
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLea Plchova
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- DestinationMonica Pagni
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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