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
A Harmath
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 1 meeting01August 28, 1980View A Harmath × Martine Jeanneret →02 BridgeOpen career →Martine Jeanneret
1 meeting01July 8, 1974View Martine Jeanneret × Michelle Rodriguez →03 BridgeOpen career →Michelle Rodriguez
1 meeting01April 1, 1968View Michelle Rodriguez × Virginia Wade →04 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginA Harmath
- BridgeMartine Jeanneret
- BridgeMichelle Rodriguez
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginA Harmath
- BridgeMartine Jeanneret
- BridgeMichelle Rodriguez
- BridgeRegina Marsikova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginA Harmath
- BridgeMartine Jeanneret
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- BridgeSue Barker
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginA Harmath
- BridgeMartine Jeanneret
- BridgeYvona Brzakova
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- 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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