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
Susan Illingworth
reaches
Steffi Graf
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 1 meeting01January 21, 1980View Susan Illingworth × Nancy Harris →02 BridgeOpen career →Nancy Harris
1 meeting01June 5, 1979View Nancy Harris × Kaye Hallam →03 BridgeOpen career →Kaye Hallam
1 meeting01March 7, 1977View Kaye Hallam × Wendy Turnbull →04 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
3 meetings21November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Wendy Turnbull × Steffi Graf →05 DestinationOpen career →Steffi Graf
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.
- OriginSusan Illingworth
- BridgeNancy Harris
- BridgeKaye Hallam
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSusan Illingworth
- BridgeNancy Harris
- BridgeKaye Hallam
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSusan Illingworth
- BridgeNancy Harris
- BridgeKaye Hallam
- BridgeJo Durie
- DestinationSteffi Graf
- OriginSusan Illingworth
- BridgeNancy Harris
- BridgeKaye Hallam
- BridgeKate Latham
- 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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