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
Soo Ok Kim
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 40 meetings2911August 12, 1985 — August 28, 1995View Steffi Graf × Gabriela Sabatini →02 BridgeOpen career →Gabriela Sabatini
1 meeting10July 20, 1986View Gabriela Sabatini × Soo Ok Kim →03 DestinationOpen career →Soo Ok Kim
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKarin Kschwendt
- DestinationSoo Ok Kim
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLaura Arraya
- DestinationSoo Ok Kim
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRenata Sasak
- DestinationSoo Ok Kim
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeNeige Dias
- DestinationSoo Ok Kim
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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