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
S Lilla
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 1 meeting10June 25, 1984View Steffi Graf × Sue Barker →02 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting01October 7, 1974View Sue Barker × Rosie Reyes →03 BridgeOpen career →Rosie Reyes
1 meeting10May 27, 1968View Rosie Reyes × Christina Lindstrom →04 BridgeOpen career →Christina Lindstrom
1 meeting10August 8, 1968View Christina Lindstrom × S Lilla →05 DestinationOpen career →S Lilla
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- BridgeRosie Reyes
- BridgeChristina Lindstrom
- DestinationS Lilla
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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