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
Nancy Harris
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 2 meetings20August 1, 1994 — May 6, 1996View Steffi Graf × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
1 meeting01January 4, 1988View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Tina Mochizuki →03 BridgeOpen career →Tina Mochizuki
1 meeting10July 28, 1980View Tina Mochizuki × Nancy Harris →04 DestinationOpen career →Nancy Harris
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeKaye Hallam
- DestinationNancy Harris
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- DestinationNancy Harris
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeFlorenta Mihai
- DestinationNancy Harris
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeJulie Harrington
- DestinationNancy Harris
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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