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
Florence Powers
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 4, 1972View Wendy Turnbull × Ann Lebedeff →03 BridgeOpen career →Ann Lebedeff
1 meeting10May 6, 1968View Ann Lebedeff × Leny Gan →04 BridgeOpen career →Leny Gan
1 meeting10May 6, 1968View Leny Gan × Florence Powers →05 DestinationOpen career →Florence Powers
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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