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
Zarah De Silva
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 meetings20August 27, 1990 — March 17, 1995View Steffi Graf × Maureen Drake →02 BridgeOpen career →Maureen Drake
1 meeting10April 23, 2002View Maureen Drake × Mari Toro →03 BridgeOpen career →Mari Toro
1 meeting10May 9, 2000View Mari Toro × Zarah De Silva →04 DestinationOpen career →Zarah De Silva
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeLiz Cruz
- DestinationZarah De Silva
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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