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
Julie Johns
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 22 meetings211November 14, 1983 — February 28, 1994View Steffi Graf × Helena Sukova →02 BridgeOpen career →Helena Sukova
1 meeting10April 6, 1981View Helena Sukova × Andrea Meister →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Meister
1 meeting10July 13, 1981View Andrea Meister × Julie Johns →04— DestinationOpen career →Julie Johns
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLaura Arraya
- BridgeAndrea Meister
- —DestinationJulie Johns
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePatricia Medrado
- BridgeAndrea Meister
- —DestinationJulie Johns
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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