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
Penny Sparling
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
1 meeting10May 19, 1980View Wendy Turnbull × Lita Liem →03 BridgeOpen career →Lita Liem
1 meeting10September 6, 1971View Lita Liem × Vicky Berner →04 BridgeOpen career →Vicky Berner
1 meeting10July 22, 1968View Vicky Berner × Penny Sparling →05 DestinationOpen career →Penny Sparling
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
- BridgeKathleen Harter
- BridgeFaye Urban
- DestinationPenny Sparling
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMargaret Court
- BridgeFaye Urban
- DestinationPenny Sparling
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeRosie Casals
- BridgeVicky Berner
- DestinationPenny Sparling
- OriginSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeKerry Reid
- BridgeVicky Berner
- DestinationPenny Sparling
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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