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
Stephanie Bernadel
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
01 3 meetings30April 14, 1986 — May 24, 1993View Steffi Graf × Laura Arraya →02 BridgeOpen career →Laura Arraya
1 meeting10April 20, 1993View Laura Arraya × Paula Umana →03 BridgeOpen career →Paula Umana
1 meeting01May 18, 1997View Paula Umana × Yamile Cordova →04 BridgeOpen career →Yamile Cordova
1 meeting10February 25, 1999View Yamile Cordova × Stephanie Bernadel →05 DestinationOpen career →Stephanie Bernadel
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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