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
Nino Esebua
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 2 meetings20July 30, 1990 — March 25, 1991View Steffi Graf × Monique Javer →02 BridgeOpen career →Monique Javer
1 meeting10May 11, 1993View Monique Javer × Edita Liachoviciute →03 BridgeOpen career →Edita Liachoviciute
1 meeting10March 30, 2000View Edita Liachoviciute × Pavlina Akritas →04 BridgeOpen career →Pavlina Akritas
1 meeting01March 31, 2000View Pavlina Akritas × Nino Esebua →05 DestinationOpen career →Nino Esebua
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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