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
Eidenberger
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01August 15, 1968View Eidenberger × Trude Schoenberger →02— BridgeOpen career →Trude Schoenberger
1 meeting01August 12, 1969View Trude Schoenberger × Edda Buding →03 BridgeOpen career →Edda Buding
1 meeting01September 1, 1971View Edda Buding × Chris Evert →04 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Chris Evert × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →05 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
7 meetings43January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Serena Williams →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEidenberger
- —BridgeTrude Schoenberger
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginEidenberger
- —BridgeTrude Schoenberger
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginEidenberger
- —BridgeTrude Schoenberger
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginEidenberger
- —BridgeTrude Schoenberger
- BridgeEdda Buding
- BridgeChris Evert
- 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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