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
B Welt
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 meeting10May 14, 1984View Steffi Graf × Anne Hobbs →02 BridgeOpen career →Anne Hobbs
1 meeting10April 17, 1978View Anne Hobbs × Elizabeth Locke →03 BridgeOpen career →Elizabeth Locke
1 meeting10April 26, 1982View Elizabeth Locke × B Welt →04 DestinationOpen career →B Welt
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmanda Brown
- BridgeElizabeth Locke
- DestinationB Welt
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeElizabeth Locke
- DestinationB Welt
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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