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
Judith Warringa
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01October 8, 1984View Judith Warringa × Adriana Villagran Reami →02 BridgeOpen career →Adriana Villagran Reami
2 meetings02July 11, 1988 — May 1, 1989View Adriana Villagran Reami × Nathalie Tauziat →03 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
3 meetings12May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000View Nathalie Tauziat × Serena Williams →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJudith Warringa
- BridgeAdriana Villagran Reami
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJudith Warringa
- BridgeAdriana Villagran Reami
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJudith Warringa
- BridgeAdriana Villagran Reami
- BridgeKatrina Adams
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJudith Warringa
- BridgeAdriana Villagran Reami
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- 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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