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
Sagit Doron
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 meetings20September 8, 1986 — October 1, 1989View Steffi Graf × Akiko Kijimuta →02 BridgeOpen career →Akiko Kijimuta
1 meeting10July 20, 1986View Akiko Kijimuta × Li Lan Duan →03 BridgeOpen career →Li Lan Duan
1 meeting10July 20, 1986View Li Lan Duan × Sagit Doron →04 DestinationOpen career →Sagit Doron
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- DestinationSagit Doron
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- BridgeLi Lan Duan
- DestinationSagit Doron
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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