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
Colette Bennett
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 4 meetings40May 14, 1984 — August 26, 1986View Steffi Graf × Bonnie Gadusek →02 BridgeOpen career →Bonnie Gadusek
1 meeting01June 23, 1980View Bonnie Gadusek × Helen Park →03 BridgeOpen career →Helen Park
1 meeting10July 21, 1980View Helen Park × Colette Bennett →04 DestinationOpen career →Colette Bennett
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVicki Nelson
- BridgeHelen Park
- DestinationColette Bennett
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeShelley Solomon
- BridgeHelen Park
- DestinationColette Bennett
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAndrea Temesvari
- BridgeHelen Park
- DestinationColette Bennett
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePilar Vasquez
- BridgeHelen Park
- DestinationColette Bennett
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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