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
K Jones
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 meeting01April 26, 1982View K Jones × S Thomson →02 BridgeOpen career →S Thomson
1 meeting01April 26, 1982View S Thomson × Cathleen Farrell →03 BridgeOpen career →Cathleen Farrell
1 meeting01May 3, 1982View Cathleen Farrell × Liz Smylie →04 BridgeOpen career →Liz Smylie
1 meeting10November 29, 1983View Liz Smylie × 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.
- OriginK Jones
- BridgeS Thomson
- BridgeCathleen Farrell
- BridgeBonnie Gadusek
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginK Jones
- BridgeS Thomson
- BridgeCathleen Farrell
- BridgeLisa Spain Short
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginK Jones
- BridgeS Thomson
- BridgeCathleen Farrell
- BridgeJulie Salmon
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginK Jones
- BridgeS Thomson
- BridgeCathleen Farrell
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- 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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