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
P Grace
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 meeting01February 3, 1980View P Grace × S Haig →02 BridgeOpen career →S Haig
1 meeting01February 3, 1980View S Haig × Sally Chapman →03 BridgeOpen career →Sally Chapman
1 meeting01May 8, 1978View Sally Chapman × Anne Hobbs →04 BridgeOpen career →Anne Hobbs
1 meeting01May 14, 1984View Anne Hobbs × Steffi Graf →05 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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