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
M Holmes
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11April 9, 1984 — May 29, 1989View Steffi Graf × Camille Benjamin →02 BridgeOpen career →Camille Benjamin
1 meeting10July 5, 1982View Camille Benjamin × Linda Cassell →03 BridgeOpen career →Linda Cassell
1 meeting10January 12, 1981View Linda Cassell × R Lamb →04 BridgeOpen career →R Lamb
1 meeting10January 12, 1981View R Lamb × M Holmes →05 DestinationOpen career →M Holmes
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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