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
Denise Casteleyn
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
5 meetings14December 3, 1969 — December 3, 1973View Wendy Turnbull × Janet Young →03 BridgeOpen career →Janet Young
1 meeting10May 19, 1969View Janet Young × Olga Lendlova →04 BridgeOpen career →Olga Lendlova
1 meeting10August 5, 1968View Olga Lendlova × Micheline Schneider →05 BridgeOpen career →Micheline Schneider
1 meeting10August 5, 1968View Micheline Schneider × Denise Casteleyn →06 DestinationOpen career →Denise Casteleyn
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeLesley Hunt
- BridgeOlga Lendlova
- BridgeMicheline Schneider
- DestinationDenise Casteleyn
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeJanet Young
- BridgeOlga Lendlova
- BridgeMicheline Schneider
- DestinationDenise Casteleyn
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJanet Young
- BridgeOlga Lendlova
- BridgeMicheline Schneider
- DestinationDenise Casteleyn
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeKate Latham
- BridgeJanet Young
- BridgeOlga Lendlova
- BridgeMicheline Schneider
- DestinationDenise Casteleyn
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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