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
Gwenda Tanner
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 meeting10June 25, 1984View Steffi Graf × Sue Barker →02 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting10April 22, 1974View Sue Barker × Madeleine Pegel →03 BridgeOpen career →Madeleine Pegel
1 meeting10March 11, 1974View Madeleine Pegel × Gwenda Tanner →04 DestinationOpen career →Gwenda Tanner
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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