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
Heidi Narborough
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 meeting01July 13, 1981View Heidi Narborough × Joy Tacon →02 BridgeOpen career →Joy Tacon
1 meeting01June 23, 1986View Joy Tacon × Hana Mandlikova →03 BridgeOpen career →Hana Mandlikova
2 meetings20January 9, 1989 — August 7, 1989View Hana Mandlikova × Amy Frazier →04 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
3 meetings03August 14, 2000 — July 17, 2006View Amy Frazier × 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.
- OriginHeidi Narborough
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHeidi Narborough
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHeidi Narborough
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHeidi Narborough
- BridgeJoy Tacon
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- 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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