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
Valerie Tan
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 3 meetings30July 13, 1996 — February 15, 1999View Steffi Graf × Barbara Schett →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
1 meeting10July 25, 1998View Barbara Schett × Magdalena Feistel →03 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Feistel
1 meeting10October 1, 1989View Magdalena Feistel × Valerie Tan →04 DestinationOpen career →Valerie Tan
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
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- DestinationValerie Tan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- DestinationValerie Tan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMary Pierce
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- DestinationValerie Tan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeMagdalena Feistel
- DestinationValerie Tan
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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