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
Mandy Einstein
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
9 meetings54December 7, 1968 — August 13, 1979View Wendy Turnbull × Kerry Reid →03 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Reid
1 meeting10January 6, 1971View Kerry Reid × Darlene Hard →04 BridgeOpen career →Darlene Hard
1 meeting10September 16, 1968View Darlene Hard × Mandy Einstein →05 DestinationOpen career →Mandy Einstein
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
- BridgeFrancoise Durr
- BridgeDarlene Hard
- DestinationMandy Einstein
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeDarlene Hard
- DestinationMandy Einstein
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeJulie Heldman
- BridgeDarlene Hard
- DestinationMandy Einstein
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeNancy Richey
- BridgeDarlene Hard
- DestinationMandy Einstein
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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