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
L Beach
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 9, 1980View L Beach × Melanie Woodthorpe →02 BridgeOpen career →Melanie Woodthorpe
2 meetings02March 6, 1981 — April 6, 1981View Melanie Woodthorpe × Sara Gomer →03 BridgeOpen career →Sara Gomer
5 meetings05February 10, 1986 — March 14, 1988View Sara Gomer × Steffi Graf →04 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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