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
E Rushoy
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10February 5, 1985View Steffi Graf × Virginia Wade →02 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
10 meetings64August 29, 1968 — November 16, 1970View Virginia Wade × Ann Jones →03 BridgeOpen career →Ann Jones
1 meeting10July 16, 1979View Ann Jones × Jill Cottrell →04 BridgeOpen career →Jill Cottrell
1 meeting10July 16, 1979View Jill Cottrell × A Steiger →05 BridgeOpen career →A Steiger
1 meeting10July 16, 1979View A Steiger × E Rushoy →06 DestinationOpen career →E Rushoy
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeJill Cottrell
- BridgeA Steiger
- DestinationE Rushoy
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeJill Cottrell
- BridgeA Steiger
- DestinationE Rushoy
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeJill Cottrell
- BridgeA Steiger
- DestinationE Rushoy
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeJill Cottrell
- BridgeA Steiger
- DestinationE Rushoy
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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