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 Sayers
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 21 meetings210October 6, 1986 — November 9, 1998View Steffi Graf × Nathalie Tauziat →02 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
1 meeting10June 9, 1986View Nathalie Tauziat × Amanda Tobin →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Tobin
1 meeting10January 12, 1981View Amanda Tobin × G Sayers →04 DestinationOpen career →G Sayers
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeAmanda Tobin
- DestinationG Sayers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeAmanda Tobin
- DestinationG Sayers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeChris Matison
- DestinationG Sayers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeAmanda Tobin
- DestinationG Sayers
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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