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
Mrs McPherson
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 5 meetings50February 10, 1986 — March 14, 1988View Steffi Graf × Sara Gomer →02 BridgeOpen career →Sara Gomer
1 meeting10April 26, 1982View Sara Gomer × Jennifer Rothschild →03 BridgeOpen career →Jennifer Rothschild
1 meeting10April 26, 1982View Jennifer Rothschild × Mrs McPherson →04 DestinationOpen career →Mrs McPherson
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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