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
Holly Danforth
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 8, 1985View Holly Danforth × Micki Schillig →02 BridgeOpen career →Micki Schillig
2 meetings02August 31, 1982 — February 10, 1986View Micki Schillig × Jennifer Mundel →03 BridgeOpen career →Jennifer Mundel
1 meeting01October 24, 1988View Jennifer Mundel × Larisa Savchenko →04 BridgeOpen career →Larisa Savchenko
1 meeting01August 10, 1998View Larisa Savchenko × 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.
- OriginHolly Danforth
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHolly Danforth
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHolly Danforth
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHolly Danforth
- BridgeMicki Schillig
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- 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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