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
Orie Sasaki
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
1 meeting10September 6, 1999View Kerry Anne Guse × Kiyoko Yazawa →03 BridgeOpen career →Kiyoko Yazawa
2 meetings11September 28, 1996 — September 7, 1998View Kiyoko Yazawa × Sachie Umehara →04 BridgeOpen career →Sachie Umehara
1 meeting10September 8, 1997View Sachie Umehara × Orie Sasaki →05 DestinationOpen career →Orie Sasaki
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
- BridgeSatoko Kurioka
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- DestinationOrie Sasaki
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMagui Serna
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- DestinationOrie Sasaki
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeMareze Joubert
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- DestinationOrie Sasaki
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeSachie Umehara
- DestinationOrie Sasaki
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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