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
Rhona Howett
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 meeting01November 9, 1981View Rhona Howett × Claudia Monteiro →02 BridgeOpen career →Claudia Monteiro
1 meeting10April 20, 1987View Claudia Monteiro × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
2 meetings02August 1, 1994 — May 6, 1996View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × 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.
- OriginRhona Howett
- BridgeClaudia Monteiro
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginRhona Howett
- BridgeClaudia Monteiro
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginRhona Howett
- BridgeClaudia Monteiro
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginRhona Howett
- BridgeClaudia Monteiro
- BridgeSue Barker
- 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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