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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Steffi Graf
reaches
Paola Almeida

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

2,620 players examined
  1. 1 meeting10January 31, 1994
    View Steffi Graf × Jana Nejedly →
  2. 2 meetings20April 15, 1998 — April 27, 2002
    View Jana Nejedly × Daniela Olivera →
  3. 1 meeting10May 13, 1997
    View Daniela Olivera × Niki Williams →
  4. 1 meeting01May 17, 1997
    View Niki Williams × Paola Almeida →

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.

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.

Reverse the route →