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
Sarah Rafael
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 4 meetings40January 14, 1991 — November 18, 1996View Steffi Graf × Karina Habsudova →02 BridgeOpen career →Karina Habsudova
2 meetings20July 13, 1993 — September 16, 1996View Karina Habsudova × Elena Pampoulova →03 BridgeOpen career →Elena Pampoulova
1 meeting10December 4, 1988View Elena Pampoulova × Sarah Rafael →04 DestinationOpen career →Sarah Rafael
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
- BridgeElena Pampoulova
- DestinationSarah Rafael
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeElena Pampoulova
- DestinationSarah Rafael
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeElena Pampoulova
- DestinationSarah Rafael
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeElena Pampoulova
- DestinationSarah Rafael
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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