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
Cricket Manuel
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 meeting01June 21, 1982View Cricket Manuel × Laura Bernstein →02 BridgeOpen career →Laura Bernstein
1 meeting01September 9, 1985View Laura Bernstein × Laura Golarsa →03 BridgeOpen career →Laura Golarsa
1 meeting01June 22, 1998View Laura Golarsa × 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.
- OriginCricket Manuel
- BridgeLaura Bernstein
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCricket Manuel
- BridgeLisa Bonder Kreiss
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCricket Manuel
- BridgeLisa Bonder Kreiss
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginCricket Manuel
- BridgeLisa Bonder Kreiss
- 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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