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
Nicole Melch
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 meeting10January 16, 1989View Steffi Graf × Kerry Anne Guse →02 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting10September 6, 1999View Kerry Anne Guse × Akiko Morigami →03 BridgeOpen career →Akiko Morigami
1 meeting10March 4, 2000View Akiko Morigami × Nicole Melch →04 DestinationOpen career →Nicole Melch
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
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeLeanne Baker
- DestinationNicole Melch
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKerry Anne Guse
- BridgeMirielle Dittmann
- DestinationNicole Melch
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeAkiko Morigami
- DestinationNicole Melch
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMirielle Dittmann
- DestinationNicole Melch
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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