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
A Sergeant
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 17, 1978View A Sergeant × S Matthews →02 BridgeOpen career →S Matthews
1 meeting01July 17, 1978View S Matthews × Judy Rich →03 BridgeOpen career →Judy Rich
3 meetings03July 17, 1978 — July 16, 1979View Judy Rich × Corinne Molesworth →04 BridgeOpen career →Corinne Molesworth
1 meeting01June 17, 1974View Corinne Molesworth × Dianne Fromholtz →05 BridgeOpen career →Dianne Fromholtz
1 meeting01July 3, 1983View Dianne Fromholtz × Steffi Graf →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginA Sergeant
- BridgeS Matthews
- BridgeJudy Rich
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginA Sergeant
- BridgeS Matthews
- BridgeJudy Rich
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginA Sergeant
- BridgeS Matthews
- BridgeJudy Rich
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginA Sergeant
- BridgeS Matthews
- BridgeJudy Rich
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- 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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