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
Delaille Hewitt
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 meeting10February 5, 1985View Steffi Graf × Virginia Wade →02 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
4 meetings13April 17, 1968 — August 10, 1970View Virginia Wade × Fay Toyne →03 BridgeOpen career →Fay Toyne
1 meeting10August 26, 1969View Fay Toyne × Delaille Hewitt →04 DestinationOpen career →Delaille Hewitt
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- BridgeFay Toyne
- DestinationDelaille Hewitt
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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