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
Mrs Davies Doxson
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 2 meetings02February 11, 1982 — February 15, 1982View Mrs Davies Doxson × Anthea Stewart →02 BridgeOpen career →Anthea Stewart
1 meeting01October 25, 1976View Anthea Stewart × Sue Barker →03 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting01June 25, 1984View Sue Barker × 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.
- OriginMrs Davies Doxson
- BridgeAnthea Stewart
- BridgePam Shriver
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMrs Davies Doxson
- BridgeAnthea Stewart
- BridgeJo Durie
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMrs Davies Doxson
- BridgeAnthea Stewart
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginMrs Davies Doxson
- BridgeAnthea Stewart
- BridgeAnnabel Croft
- 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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