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
Lori Miller
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 meeting01July 27, 1981View Lori Miller × Jean Hepner →02 BridgeOpen career →Jean Hepner
1 meeting01August 30, 1983View Jean Hepner × Pam Shriver →03 BridgeOpen career →Pam Shriver
1 meeting01August 26, 1996View Pam Shriver × Sandrine Testud →04 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
8 meetings35January 11, 1998 — October 30, 2001View Sandrine Testud × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginLori Miller
- BridgeJean Hepner
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLori Miller
- BridgeJean Hepner
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLori Miller
- BridgeJean Hepner
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeAnnabel Ellwood
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLori Miller
- BridgeJean Hepner
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- 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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