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
Becky Reese
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 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 meeting10March 18, 1969View Mary Ann Eisel × Becky Reese →04 DestinationOpen career →Becky Reese
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMary Ann Eisel
- DestinationBecky Reese
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJudy Alvarez
- DestinationBecky Reese
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeMary Ann Eisel
- DestinationBecky Reese
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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