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
Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen
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 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Serena Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Serena Williams
1 meeting10July 1, 2019View Serena Williams × Kaja Juvan →03 BridgeOpen career →Kaja Juvan
1 meeting01April 21, 2017View Kaja Juvan × Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen →04 DestinationOpen career →Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeKaja Juvan
- DestinationAstrid Wanja Brune Olsen
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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