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
Linda Mitchell
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 6, 1974View Linda Mitchell × Martha Downing →02 BridgeOpen career →Martha Downing
1 meeting01May 6, 1974View Martha Downing × Marcy Okeefe →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcy Okeefe
1 meeting10August 14, 1972View Marcy Okeefe × Betsy Nagelsen →04 BridgeOpen career →Betsy Nagelsen
2 meetings20August 14, 1989 — June 25, 1990View Betsy Nagelsen × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →05 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
7 meetings43January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × 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.
- OriginLinda Mitchell
- BridgeMartha Downing
- BridgeMarcy Okeefe
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLinda Mitchell
- BridgeMartha Downing
- BridgeMarcy Okeefe
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLinda Mitchell
- BridgeMartha Downing
- BridgeMarcy Okeefe
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLinda Mitchell
- BridgeMartha Downing
- BridgeMarcy Okeefe
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- 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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