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
Joyce Kohler
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 meeting10May 14, 1984View Steffi Graf × Anne Hobbs →02 BridgeOpen career →Anne Hobbs
1 meeting10November 16, 1981View Anne Hobbs × Christa Pickwick →03 BridgeOpen career →Christa Pickwick
1 meeting10January 14, 1980View Christa Pickwick × Joyce Kohler →04 DestinationOpen career →Joyce Kohler
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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