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
J Caplen
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 6 meetings60November 19, 1984 — August 16, 1993View Steffi Graf × Rosalyn Fairbank →02 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
1 meeting10June 12, 1989View Rosalyn Fairbank × Belinda Borneo →03 BridgeOpen career →Belinda Borneo
1 meeting10March 6, 1981View Belinda Borneo × J Caplen →04 DestinationOpen career →J Caplen
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
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeBelinda Borneo
- DestinationJ Caplen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeLea Antonoplis
- BridgeBelinda Borneo
- DestinationJ Caplen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeEtsuko Inoue
- BridgeBelinda Borneo
- DestinationJ Caplen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeBelinda Borneo
- DestinationJ Caplen
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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