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
D Peers
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
3 meetings21May 28, 1973 — June 26, 1978View Wendy Turnbull × Sue Mappin →03 BridgeOpen career →Sue Mappin
1 meeting10May 27, 1974View Sue Mappin × Jill Griffiths →04 BridgeOpen career →Jill Griffiths
1 meeting10July 6, 1981View Jill Griffiths × D Peers →05 DestinationOpen career →D Peers
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeVeronica Burton
- BridgeJill Griffiths
- DestinationD Peers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeCarrie Meyer
- BridgeJill Griffiths
- DestinationD Peers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeJudy Tegart
- BridgeJill Griffiths
- DestinationD Peers
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeSue Mappin
- BridgeJill Griffiths
- DestinationD Peers
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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