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
Becky Bell
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 meeting01June 30, 1980View Becky Bell × Sonoe Yonezawa →02 BridgeOpen career →Sonoe Yonezawa
1 meeting01June 23, 1980View Sonoe Yonezawa × Bonnie Gadusek →03 BridgeOpen career →Bonnie Gadusek
4 meetings04May 14, 1984 — August 26, 1986View Bonnie Gadusek × 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.
- OriginBecky Bell
- BridgeSonoe Yonezawa
- BridgeSusan Mascarin
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginBecky Bell
- BridgeSonoe Yonezawa
- BridgeShelley Solomon
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginBecky Bell
- BridgeSonoe Yonezawa
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginBecky Bell
- BridgeLucy Gordon
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- 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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