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
Jessica Roland Rosario
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 meeting10January 31, 1994View Steffi Graf × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting10April 24, 2002View Jana Nejedly × Nikkita Fountain →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikkita Fountain
1 meeting01February 4, 2009View Nikkita Fountain × Jessica Roland Rosario →04 DestinationOpen career →Jessica Roland Rosario
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
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeLarikah Russell
- DestinationJessica Roland Rosario
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMaureen Drake
- BridgeNikkita Fountain
- DestinationJessica Roland Rosario
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSerena Williams
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationJessica Roland Rosario
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationJessica Roland Rosario
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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