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
Patty Mcquown
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 meeting01September 12, 1983View Steffi Graf × Kate Latham →02 BridgeOpen career →Kate Latham
1 meeting10April 29, 1981View Kate Latham × Deborah Douglas →03 BridgeOpen career →Deborah Douglas
1 meeting10April 29, 1981View Deborah Douglas × Patty Mcquown →04 DestinationOpen career →Patty Mcquown
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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