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
Caroline Yao
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 14 meetings86February 5, 1985 — June 26, 1989View Steffi Graf × Chris Evert →02 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
2 meetings20June 16, 1971 — January 21, 1972View Chris Evert × Bunny Smith →03 BridgeOpen career →Bunny Smith
1 meeting01July 14, 1980View Bunny Smith × Aschara Moranon →04 BridgeOpen career →Aschara Moranon
1 meeting10May 3, 1982View Aschara Moranon × Caroline Yao →05 DestinationOpen career →Caroline Yao
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeKathy Obrien
- BridgeAschara Moranon
- DestinationCaroline Yao
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeJean Hepner
- BridgeAschara Moranon
- DestinationCaroline Yao
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBonnie Gadusek
- BridgeJean Hepner
- BridgeAschara Moranon
- DestinationCaroline Yao
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBonnie Gadusek
- BridgeVicki Beggs
- BridgeAschara Moranon
- DestinationCaroline Yao
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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