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
Hilkka Hannula
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 meetings40April 22, 1968 — June 14, 1971View Virginia Wade × Christine Truman →03 BridgeOpen career →Christine Truman
1 meeting10January 27, 1969View Christine Truman × Hilkka Hannula →04 DestinationOpen career →Hilkka Hannula
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeChristine Truman
- DestinationHilkka Hannula
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKate Latham
- BridgeChristine Truman
- DestinationHilkka Hannula
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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