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
Horn
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 meeting01May 22, 1980View Horn × Andrea Pesak →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Pesak
1 meeting01May 19, 1980View Andrea Pesak × Nanette Schutte →03 BridgeOpen career →Nanette Schutte
1 meeting01July 6, 1987View Nanette Schutte × Sabine Appelmans →04 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
2 meetings02January 17, 2000 — February 14, 2000View Sabine Appelmans × 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.
- OriginHorn
- BridgeAndrea Pesak
- BridgeBettina Bunge
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHorn
- BridgeAndrea Pesak
- BridgeBettina Bunge
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHorn
- BridgeAndrea Pesak
- BridgeBettina Bunge
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHorn
- BridgeAndrea Pesak
- BridgeBettina Bunge
- 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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