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
E Coles
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 5 meetings50February 10, 1986 — March 14, 1988View Steffi Graf × Sara Gomer →02 BridgeOpen career →Sara Gomer
1 meeting01April 21, 1981View Sara Gomer × Debbie Stewart →03 BridgeOpen career →Debbie Stewart
1 meeting10April 7, 1980View Debbie Stewart × E Coles →04 DestinationOpen career →E Coles
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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