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
Elize Badenhorst
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 1 meeting01May 25, 1982View Elize Badenhorst × Bernadette Randall →02 BridgeOpen career →Bernadette Randall
1 meeting01December 8, 1980View Bernadette Randall × Betsy Nagelsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Betsy Nagelsen
1 meeting01July 31, 1989View Betsy Nagelsen × 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.
- OriginElize Badenhorst
- BridgeBernadette Randall
- BridgeClaudia Kohde Kilsch
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginElize Badenhorst
- BridgeBernadette Randall
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginElize Badenhorst
- BridgeBernadette Randall
- BridgeJo Durie
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginElize Badenhorst
- BridgeBernadette Randall
- BridgeVicki Nelson
- 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.
Reverse the route →