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
Karen Garman
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 meeting01April 14, 1980View Karen Garman × Elana Smukler →02 BridgeOpen career →Elana Smukler
1 meeting01November 26, 1979View Elana Smukler × 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
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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