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
Just
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 meetings34October 24, 1983 — March 14, 1988View Steffi Graf × Jo Durie →02 BridgeOpen career →Jo Durie
1 meeting01October 11, 1976View Jo Durie × Charlotte Leatham →03 BridgeOpen career →Charlotte Leatham
1 meeting10February 11, 1977View Charlotte Leatham × Just →04 DestinationOpen career →Just
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
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- BridgeCharlotte Leatham
- DestinationJust
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJoanne Russell
- BridgeCharlotte Leatham
- DestinationJust
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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