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
C Cehrman
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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
1 meeting10March 22, 1970View Virginia Wade × Glenda Swan →03 BridgeOpen career →Glenda Swan
1 meeting10April 1, 1968View Glenda Swan × Anne Papenfus →04 BridgeOpen career →Anne Papenfus
1 meeting10April 1, 1969View Anne Papenfus × C Cehrman →05 DestinationOpen career →C Cehrman
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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