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
Ann Nall
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01January 22, 1968View Ann Nall × Susan Parkhurst →02 BridgeOpen career →Susan Parkhurst
1 meeting01January 29, 1968View Susan Parkhurst × Vera Lucia Giugni →03 BridgeOpen career →Vera Lucia Giugni
1 meeting01November 27, 1978View Vera Lucia Giugni × Sylvia Hanika →04 BridgeOpen career →Sylvia Hanika
5 meetings14August 28, 1984 — August 22, 1988View Sylvia Hanika × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi 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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