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
Vanessa Kendall
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 meetings02April 12, 1997 — March 2, 1998View Vanessa Kendall × Lisa Mcshea →02 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Mcshea
1 meeting01February 27, 1999View Lisa Mcshea × Kerry Anne Guse →03 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Anne Guse
1 meeting01January 16, 1989View Kerry Anne Guse × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- OriginVanessa Kendall
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgeYone Kamio
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVanessa Kendall
- BridgeLisa Mcshea
- BridgePetra Begerow
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVanessa Kendall
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeMagui Serna
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginVanessa Kendall
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- BridgeSerena Williams
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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