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
Junko Watanabe
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 36 meetings288August 22, 1988 — June 24, 1996View Steffi Graf × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10August 9, 1993View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Michelle Jaggard Lai →03 BridgeOpen career →Michelle Jaggard Lai
1 meeting10January 3, 1994View Michelle Jaggard Lai × Junko Watanabe →04 DestinationOpen career →Junko Watanabe
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
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- BridgeMichelle Jaggard Lai
- DestinationJunko Watanabe
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeMichelle Jaggard Lai
- DestinationJunko Watanabe
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeMichelle Jaggard Lai
- DestinationJunko Watanabe
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeMichelle Jaggard Lai
- DestinationJunko Watanabe
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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