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
Barbara Borsari
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 4, 1980View Barbara Borsari × Antonella Canapi →02 BridgeOpen career →Antonella Canapi
1 meeting01July 21, 1980View Antonella Canapi × Kim Steinmetz →03 BridgeOpen career →Kim Steinmetz
1 meeting01August 29, 1988View Kim Steinmetz × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →04 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
7 meetings43January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
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.
- OriginBarbara Borsari
- BridgeAntonella Canapi
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginBarbara Borsari
- BridgeAntonella Canapi
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginBarbara Borsari
- BridgeAntonella Canapi
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginBarbara Borsari
- BridgeAntonella Canapi
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- 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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