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
Lynn Lewis
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 meeting01June 27, 1983View Lynn Lewis × Anna Maria Fernandez →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Maria Fernandez
2 meetings02November 14, 1983 — September 30, 1985View Anna Maria Fernandez × Steffi Graf →03 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × Serena Williams →04 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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