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
M Miklashevskaya
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
4 meetings04June 12, 1972 — November 27, 1978View Wendy Turnbull × Olga Morozova →03 BridgeOpen career →Olga Morozova
4 meetings40February 5, 1968 — February 18, 1974View Olga Morozova × Rauza Islanova →04 BridgeOpen career →Rauza Islanova
1 meeting10February 25, 1971View Rauza Islanova × M Miklashevskaya →05 DestinationOpen career →M Miklashevskaya
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeEugenia Birioukova
- BridgeRauza Islanova
- DestinationM Miklashevskaya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMarie Pinterova
- BridgeRauza Islanova
- DestinationM Miklashevskaya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMarina Kroschina
- BridgeRauza Islanova
- DestinationM Miklashevskaya
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeRauza Islanova
- DestinationM Miklashevskaya
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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