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
Nancy Leand
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 meeting01February 14, 1969View Nancy Leand × Irene Jozefowitz →02 BridgeOpen career →Irene Jozefowitz
1 meeting01February 25, 1970View Irene Jozefowitz × Pam Teeguarden →03 BridgeOpen career →Pam Teeguarden
4 meetings04September 25, 1978 — September 28, 1981View Pam Teeguarden × Wendy Turnbull →04 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
3 meetings21November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Wendy Turnbull × Steffi Graf →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginNancy Leand
- BridgeIrene Jozefowitz
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginNancy Leand
- BridgeIrene Jozefowitz
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginNancy Leand
- BridgeIrene Jozefowitz
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgeChris Evert
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginNancy Leand
- BridgeIrene Jozefowitz
- BridgePam Teeguarden
- BridgeSue Barker
- 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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