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
Kathy May
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 meeting10August 6, 1990View Kathy May × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
1 meeting01August 26, 1996View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Rita Grande →03 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
3 meetings03July 24, 1999 — May 13, 2002View Rita Grande × 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.
- OriginKathy May
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKathy May
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKathy May
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKathy May
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- 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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