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
L Goldberg
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 1 meeting10April 13, 1987View Steffi Graf × Vicki Nelson →02 BridgeOpen career →Vicki Nelson
2 meetings20December 8, 1986 — November 30, 1987View Vicki Nelson × Lisa Pennington →03 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Pennington
1 meeting10May 18, 1981View Lisa Pennington × L Goldberg →04 DestinationOpen career →L Goldberg
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnnabel Croft
- BridgeLisa Pennington
- DestinationL Goldberg
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeBeverly Mould
- BridgeLisa Pennington
- DestinationL Goldberg
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeCatarina Lindqvist Ryan
- BridgeLisa Pennington
- DestinationL Goldberg
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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