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
Chen Chuan
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 meeting10October 22, 1979View Chen Chuan × C Teshima →02 BridgeOpen career →C Teshima
1 meeting01October 23, 1978View C Teshima × Patricia Bostrom →03 BridgeOpen career →Patricia Bostrom
5 meetings05May 7, 1973 — January 3, 1977View Patricia Bostrom × Dianne Fromholtz →04 BridgeOpen career →Dianne Fromholtz
1 meeting01July 3, 1983View Dianne Fromholtz × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginChen Chuan
- BridgeC Teshima
- BridgePatricia Bostrom
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginChen Chuan
- BridgeC Teshima
- BridgePatricia Bostrom
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginChen Chuan
- BridgeC Teshima
- BridgePatricia Bostrom
- BridgeSue Barker
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginChen Chuan
- BridgeC Teshima
- BridgePatricia Bostrom
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- 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.
Reverse the route →