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
Mrs Lloyd
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
1 meeting10May 19, 1980View Wendy Turnbull × Lita Liem →03 BridgeOpen career →Lita Liem
1 meeting10May 29, 1978View Lita Liem × Anne Fritz →04 BridgeOpen career →Anne Fritz
1 meeting10May 29, 1978View Anne Fritz × K Neill →05 BridgeOpen career →K Neill
1 meeting10May 22, 1978View K Neill × Mrs Lloyd →06 DestinationOpen career →Mrs Lloyd
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeMona Guerrant
- BridgeCarol Draper
- BridgeK Neill
- DestinationMrs Lloyd
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeLita Liem
- BridgeAnne Fritz
- BridgeK Neill
- DestinationMrs Lloyd
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeMona Guerrant
- BridgeCarol Draper
- BridgeK Neill
- DestinationMrs Lloyd
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeLita Liem
- BridgeAnne Fritz
- BridgeK Neill
- DestinationMrs Lloyd
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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