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
D Brown
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 meeting10July 31, 1989View Steffi Graf × Betsy Nagelsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Betsy Nagelsen
2 meetings20October 15, 1979 — October 22, 1979View Betsy Nagelsen × Jean Nachand →03 BridgeOpen career →Jean Nachand
1 meeting10November 17, 1980View Jean Nachand × D Brown →04 DestinationOpen career →D Brown
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.
Reverse the route →