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
C Mcwaite
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 meeting01November 29, 1976View C Mcwaite × Janet Campbell →02 BridgeOpen career →Janet Campbell
1 meeting01November 29, 1976View Janet Campbell × Dianne Berkinshaw →03 BridgeOpen career →Dianne Berkinshaw
2 meetings02December 2, 1974 — December 1, 1975View Dianne Berkinshaw × Sue Barker →04 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting01June 25, 1984View Sue Barker × 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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