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
Lyn Langsford
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 meeting01January 14, 1980View Lyn Langsford × Miranda Yates →02 BridgeOpen career →Miranda Yates
1 meeting10January 7, 1980View Miranda Yates × Anne Minter →03 BridgeOpen career →Anne Minter
2 meetings02October 1, 1989 — June 24, 1991View Anne Minter × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →04 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
7 meetings43January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × 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.
- OriginLyn Langsford
- BridgeMiranda Yates
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLyn Langsford
- BridgeMiranda Yates
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLyn Langsford
- BridgeMiranda Yates
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLyn Langsford
- BridgeMiranda Yates
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- 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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