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
Paula Iversen
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 meeting01February 14, 1994View Kerry Anne Guse × Barbara Mulej →03 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Mulej
1 meeting10May 10, 1993View Barbara Mulej × Paula Iversen →04 DestinationOpen career →Paula Iversen
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- DestinationPaula Iversen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeSelima Sfar
- DestinationPaula Iversen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChristina Papadaki
- DestinationPaula Iversen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeYael Segal
- DestinationPaula Iversen
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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