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
Marlene Gerson
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
11 meetings83September 22, 1975 — June 22, 1987View Wendy Turnbull × Sharon Walsh Pete →03 BridgeOpen career →Sharon Walsh Pete
1 meeting01March 27, 1972View Sharon Walsh Pete × Marlene Gerson →04 DestinationOpen career →Marlene Gerson
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
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgePatricia Walkden
- DestinationMarlene Gerson
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeVeronica Burton
- DestinationMarlene Gerson
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMary Struthers
- DestinationMarlene Gerson
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- DestinationMarlene Gerson
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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