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
Cecilia Barbat
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 meeting01October 20, 1975View Cecilia Barbat × Gina Diaz Ponce →02 BridgeOpen career →Gina Diaz Ponce
1 meeting01October 20, 1975View Gina Diaz Ponce × Patricia Medrado →03 BridgeOpen career →Patricia Medrado
2 meetings11May 19, 1986 — May 4, 1987View Patricia Medrado × Nathalie Tauziat →04 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
3 meetings12May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000View Nathalie Tauziat × 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.
- OriginCecilia Barbat
- BridgeGina Diaz Ponce
- BridgePatricia Medrado
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCecilia Barbat
- BridgeGina Diaz Ponce
- BridgePatricia Medrado
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- 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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