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
R Thomas
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 meeting01July 12, 1971View R Thomas × Laura Rossouw →02 BridgeOpen career →Laura Rossouw
3 meetings03January 1, 1968 — April 19, 1971View Laura Rossouw × Virginia Wade →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginR Thomas
- BridgeLaura Rossouw
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginR Thomas
- BridgeLaura Rossouw
- BridgeSue Barker
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginR Thomas
- BridgeLaura Rossouw
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- 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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