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
Renee Esses
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 meeting01November 29, 1983View Steffi Graf × Liz Smylie →02 BridgeOpen career →Liz Smylie
2 meetings20April 26, 1982 — June 27, 1983View Liz Smylie × Lucy Gordon →03 BridgeOpen career →Lucy Gordon
1 meeting10July 28, 1980View Lucy Gordon × Renee Esses →04 DestinationOpen career →Renee Esses
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnna Maria Fernandez
- BridgeLucy Gordon
- DestinationRenee Esses
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgePam Casale
- BridgeLucy Gordon
- DestinationRenee Esses
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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