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
Gillian Van Der Merwe
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
4 meetings13January 5, 1970 — January 17, 1977View Wendy Turnbull × Margaret Court →03 BridgeOpen career →Margaret Court
2 meetings20March 29, 1971 — April 5, 1971View Margaret Court × Gillian Van Der Merwe →04 DestinationOpen career →Gillian Van Der Merwe
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
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeMargaret Court
- DestinationGillian Van Der Merwe
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeMargaret Court
- DestinationGillian Van Der Merwe
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeElizabeth Vlotman
- DestinationGillian Van Der Merwe
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMargaret Court
- DestinationGillian Van Der Merwe
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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