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
Carol Backenstose
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 meeting10August 18, 1974View Virginia Wade × Carrie Fleming →03 BridgeOpen career →Carrie Fleming
1 meeting10June 26, 1972View Carrie Fleming × Darlene Rose →04 BridgeOpen career →Darlene Rose
1 meeting10June 26, 1972View Darlene Rose × Carol Backenstose →05 DestinationOpen career →Carol Backenstose
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKathy Kraft
- BridgeDarlene Rose
- DestinationCarol Backenstose
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBonnie Gadusek
- BridgeCarrie Fleming
- BridgeDarlene Rose
- DestinationCarol Backenstose
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJoanne Russell
- BridgeCarrie Fleming
- BridgeDarlene Rose
- DestinationCarol Backenstose
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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