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
S Carter
reaches
Steffi Graf
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 14, 1969View S Carter × Hilary Merrick →02 BridgeOpen career →Hilary Merrick
1 meeting01July 14, 1969View Hilary Merrick × Penelope Hardgrave →03 BridgeOpen career →Penelope Hardgrave
1 meeting01November 8, 1971View Penelope Hardgrave × Winnie Shaw →04 BridgeOpen career →Winnie Shaw
20 meetings416April 17, 1968 — May 20, 1974View Winnie Shaw × Virginia Wade →05 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × Steffi Graf →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginS Carter
- BridgeHilary Merrick
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginS Carter
- BridgeHilary Merrick
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeSue Barker
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginS Carter
- BridgeHilary Merrick
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginS Carter
- BridgeHilary Merrick
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- 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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