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
Oksana Lifanova
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 2 meetings20May 1, 1989 — August 27, 1990View Steffi Graf × Rachel Mcquillan →02 BridgeOpen career →Rachel Mcquillan
2 meetings20October 1, 1990 — December 31, 1990View Rachel Mcquillan × Viktoria Milvidskaia →03 BridgeOpen career →Viktoria Milvidskaia
1 meeting10July 23, 1984View Viktoria Milvidskaia × Oksana Lifanova →04 DestinationOpen career →Oksana Lifanova
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
- BridgeHelena Sukova
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- DestinationOksana Lifanova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKathy Rinaldi Stunkel
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- DestinationOksana Lifanova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePascale Paradis Mangon
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- DestinationOksana Lifanova
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRadomira Zrubakova
- BridgeViktoria Milvidskaia
- DestinationOksana Lifanova
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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