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
Steffi Graf
reaches
Anneli Bjork
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 6 meetings60November 19, 1984 — August 16, 1993View Steffi Graf × Rosalyn Fairbank →02 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting10April 15, 1985View Rosalyn Fairbank × Joy Cummings →03 BridgeOpen career →Joy Cummings
1 meeting10July 21, 1985View Joy Cummings × Anneli Bjork →04 DestinationOpen career →Anneli Bjork
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeHelena Sukova
- BridgeEva Rozsavolgyi
- DestinationAnneli Bjork
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Smith
- BridgeJoy Cummings
- DestinationAnneli Bjork
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeJoy Cummings
- DestinationAnneli Bjork
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmanda Brown
- BridgeEva Rozsavolgyi
- DestinationAnneli Bjork
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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