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
Jean Wilson
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 meeting10February 5, 1985View Steffi Graf × Virginia Wade →02 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
10 meetings91January 29, 1968 — November 12, 1974View Virginia Wade × Joyce Williams →03 BridgeOpen career →Joyce Williams
1 meeting10June 4, 1968View Joyce Williams × Jean Wilson →04 DestinationOpen career →Jean Wilson
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJoyce Williams
- DestinationJean Wilson
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- BridgeJoyce Williams
- DestinationJean Wilson
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJoanne Russell
- BridgeJoyce Williams
- DestinationJean Wilson
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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