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
Wei Yen Lai
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 meeting01February 22, 1996View Wei Yen Lai × Gaye Mcmanus →02 BridgeOpen career →Gaye Mcmanus
1 meeting01March 11, 1997View Gaye Mcmanus × Yayuk Basuki →03 BridgeOpen career →Yayuk Basuki
4 meetings04June 24, 1991 — August 26, 1996View Yayuk Basuki × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi 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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