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 Whitehead
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 meeting01November 18, 1974View C Whitehead × Lindsay Blachford →02 BridgeOpen career →Lindsay Blachford
2 meetings11January 2, 1973 — May 28, 1973View Lindsay Blachford × Dianne Fromholtz →03 BridgeOpen career →Dianne Fromholtz
1 meeting01July 3, 1983View Dianne Fromholtz × 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.
- OriginC Whitehead
- BridgeLindsay Blachford
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginC Whitehead
- BridgeLindsay Blachford
- BridgeSue Barker
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginC Whitehead
- BridgeLindsay Blachford
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginC Whitehead
- BridgeLindsay Blachford
- 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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