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
Monika Schneider
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 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
2 meetings11February 27, 1999View Kerry Anne Guse × Trudi Musgrave →03 BridgeOpen career →Trudi Musgrave
1 meeting10February 27, 1999View Trudi Musgrave × Tina Hergold →04 BridgeOpen career →Tina Hergold
1 meeting10May 16, 2000View Tina Hergold × Monika Schneider →05 DestinationOpen career →Monika Schneider
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeLeanne Baker
- BridgeTina Hergold
- DestinationMonika Schneider
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeRochelle Rosenfield
- BridgeTina Hergold
- DestinationMonika Schneider
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeSusan Cowan
- BridgeTina Hergold
- DestinationMonika Schneider
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgePatricia Wartusch
- BridgeTina Hergold
- DestinationMonika Schneider
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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