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
Debbie Morgan
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 3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →02 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
6 meetings33May 29, 1972 — August 31, 1977View Wendy Turnbull × Cynthia Doerner →03 BridgeOpen career →Cynthia Doerner
1 meeting10May 3, 1980View Cynthia Doerner × Debbie Morgan →04 DestinationOpen career →Debbie Morgan
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.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMichelle Tyler
- DestinationDebbie Morgan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeVeronica Burton
- DestinationDebbie Morgan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeDeborah Jevans
- DestinationDebbie Morgan
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeAlmut Sturm
- DestinationDebbie Morgan
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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