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
Tami Jones
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 17, 1992View Tami Jones × Heather Ludloff →02 BridgeOpen career →Heather Ludloff
1 meeting10April 24, 1989View Heather Ludloff × Sabine Appelmans →03 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
4 meetings13May 27, 1991 — February 18, 1998View Sabine Appelmans × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- OriginTami Jones
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTami Jones
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- BridgeNatalia Zvereva
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTami Jones
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTami Jones
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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