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
G Armstrong
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 3, 1983View Steffi Graf × Dianne Fromholtz →02 BridgeOpen career →Dianne Fromholtz
2 meetings20August 28, 1974 — June 30, 1975View Dianne Fromholtz × Mariana Simionescu →03 BridgeOpen career →Mariana Simionescu
1 meeting10June 14, 1976View Mariana Simionescu × G Armstrong →04 DestinationOpen career →G Armstrong
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
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeDaphne Pattison
- DestinationG Armstrong
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeMariana Simionescu
- DestinationG Armstrong
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMariana Simionescu
- DestinationG Armstrong
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeMariana Simionescu
- DestinationG Armstrong
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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