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
Jackie Joseph
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 7 meetings70March 12, 1993 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Chanda Rubin →02 BridgeOpen career →Chanda Rubin
1 meeting10March 15, 1991View Chanda Rubin × Maider Laval →03 BridgeOpen career →Maider Laval
1 meeting10July 31, 1989View Maider Laval × Jackie Joseph →04 DestinationOpen career →Jackie Joseph
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
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeMaider Laval
- DestinationJackie Joseph
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnke Huber
- BridgeMaider Laval
- DestinationJackie Joseph
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRachel Mcquillan
- BridgeMaider Laval
- DestinationJackie Joseph
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeHeidi Eisterlehner
- DestinationJackie Joseph
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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