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
Caryn Moss
reaches
Serena Williams
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 meeting01April 13, 1987View Caryn Moss × Petra Huber →02 BridgeOpen career →Petra Huber
2 meetings11May 5, 1986 — December 1, 1986View Petra Huber × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →03 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
7 meetings43January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Serena Williams →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCaryn Moss
- BridgePetra Huber
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCaryn Moss
- BridgePetra Huber
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCaryn Moss
- BridgePetra Huber
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCaryn Moss
- BridgePetra Huber
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- 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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