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
J Mcdowell
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 22, 1978View J Mcdowell × Ros Lewis →02 BridgeOpen career →Ros Lewis
2 meetings02October 25, 1976 — April 17, 1978View Ros Lewis × Jo Durie →03 BridgeOpen career →Jo Durie
7 meetings43October 24, 1983 — March 14, 1988View Jo Durie × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- OriginJ Mcdowell
- BridgeRos Lewis
- BridgeAmanda Brown
- 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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