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
Sue Langridge
reaches
Steffi Graf
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— 1 meeting01February 19, 1973View Sue Langridge × Robin Lloyd →02 BridgeOpen career →Robin Lloyd
3 meetings03October 14, 1968 — April 16, 1969View Robin Lloyd × Virginia Wade →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting01February 5, 1985View Virginia Wade × Steffi Graf →04 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- —OriginSue Langridge
- BridgeRobin Lloyd
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- —OriginSue Langridge
- BridgeMarion De Witte
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- —OriginSue Langridge
- BridgeMarion De Witte
- BridgeIva Budarova
- DestinationSteffi Graf
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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