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
Lily Richard
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
2 meetings11April 1, 1974 — August 17, 1981View Wendy Turnbull × Betty Ann Grubb →03 BridgeOpen career →Betty Ann Grubb
1 meeting10February 14, 1969View Betty Ann Grubb × Mary Wisnieski →04 BridgeOpen career →Mary Wisnieski
1 meeting10January 18, 1971View Mary Wisnieski × Lily Richard →05 DestinationOpen career →Lily Richard
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeBetty Ann Grubb
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- DestinationLily Richard
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- DestinationLily Richard
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeBetty Ann Grubb
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- DestinationLily Richard
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeLaurie Fleming
- BridgeMary Wisnieski
- DestinationLily Richard
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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