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
M Nyholm
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 meeting01July 22, 1980View M Nyholm × N Christ →02 BridgeOpen career →N Christ
1 meeting01July 22, 1980View N Christ × Brenda Remilton →03 BridgeOpen career →Brenda Remilton
1 meeting01June 8, 1981View Brenda Remilton × Sue Barker →04 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting01June 25, 1984View Sue Barker × 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.
- OriginM Nyholm
- BridgeN Christ
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginM Nyholm
- BridgeN Christ
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeChristiane Jolissaint
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginM Nyholm
- BridgeN Christ
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginM Nyholm
- BridgeN Christ
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeBettina Bunge
- 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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