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
Jennifer Hirsch
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 meeting01May 26, 1980View Jennifer Hirsch × Ann Young →02 BridgeOpen career →Ann Young
1 meeting10July 14, 1980View Ann Young × Cathy Griffiths →03 BridgeOpen career →Cathy Griffiths
1 meeting01January 12, 1981View Cathy Griffiths × Amanda Tobin →04 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Tobin
1 meeting01June 9, 1986View Amanda Tobin × Nathalie Tauziat →05 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
3 meetings12May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000View Nathalie Tauziat × 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.
- OriginJennifer Hirsch
- BridgeAnn Young
- BridgeCathy Griffiths
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJennifer Hirsch
- BridgeAnn Young
- BridgeCathy Griffiths
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJennifer Hirsch
- BridgeAnn Young
- BridgeCathy Griffiths
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJennifer Hirsch
- BridgeAnn Young
- BridgeCathy Griffiths
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- 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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