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
A Kovar
reaches
Serena Williams
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 meeting01August 17, 1981View A Kovar × Nicola Lusty →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicola Lusty
1 meeting01May 17, 1982View Nicola Lusty × Amanda Brown →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Brown
1 meeting01August 12, 1985View Amanda Brown × Steffi Graf →04 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginA Kovar
- BridgeNicola Lusty
- BridgeTina Mochizuki
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginA Kovar
- BridgeNicola Lusty
- BridgeLise Gregory
- BridgeLaura Golarsa
- DestinationSerena Williams
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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