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
Tze May Lee
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 meeting01July 21, 1990View Tze May Lee × Ellinore Lightbody →02 BridgeOpen career →Ellinore Lightbody
1 meeting01June 21, 1982View Ellinore Lightbody × Rosalyn Fairbank →03 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
6 meetings06November 19, 1984 — August 16, 1993View Rosalyn Fairbank × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- OriginTze May Lee
- BridgeEllinore Lightbody
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTze May Lee
- BridgeYeon Sook Kim
- BridgeHelena Sukova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTze May Lee
- BridgeYeon Sook Kim
- BridgeKaterina Maleeva
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginTze May Lee
- BridgeYeon Sook Kim
- BridgeAmy Jonsson
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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