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
Lily Richard
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 meeting01January 18, 1971View Lily Richard × Mary Wisnieski →02 BridgeOpen career →Mary Wisnieski
1 meeting01January 21, 1972View Mary Wisnieski × Laurie Fleming →03 BridgeOpen career →Laurie Fleming
4 meetings04September 18, 1970 — February 25, 1974View Laurie Fleming × Virginia Wade →04 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × 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.
- OriginLily Richard
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLily Richard
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- BridgeBettina Bunge
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLily Richard
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- BridgeKate Latham
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginLily Richard
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- BridgeAlycia Moulton
- 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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