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
Annette Patchen
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 3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →02 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
1 meeting10January 5, 1976View Wendy Turnbull × Chris Newton →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Newton
1 meeting01July 28, 1980View Chris Newton × Mary Dailey →04 BridgeOpen career →Mary Dailey
1 meeting10January 25, 1987View Mary Dailey × Annette Patchen →05 DestinationOpen career →Annette Patchen
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeChris Newton
- BridgeMary Dailey
- DestinationAnnette Patchen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeMarcella Mesker
- BridgeChris Newton
- BridgeMary Dailey
- DestinationAnnette Patchen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeChris Newton
- BridgeMary Dailey
- DestinationAnnette Patchen
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeChris Newton
- BridgeMary Dailey
- DestinationAnnette Patchen
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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