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
Steffi Graf
reaches
A Harris
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 meeting10February 5, 1985View Steffi Graf × Virginia Wade →02 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
5 meetings41June 14, 1968 — November 13, 1969View Virginia Wade × Mary Ann Eisel →03 BridgeOpen career →Mary Ann Eisel
1 meeting10January 20, 1969View Mary Ann Eisel × Jane Hancock →04 BridgeOpen career →Jane Hancock
1 meeting10July 7, 1980View Jane Hancock × R Harvie →05 BridgeOpen career →R Harvie
1 meeting10July 7, 1980View R Harvie × A Harris →06 DestinationOpen career →A Harris
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMary Ann Eisel
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeMary Ann Eisel
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
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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