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
M Cobb
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 meeting01May 25, 1981View M Cobb × Liz Gordon →02 BridgeOpen career →Liz Gordon
1 meeting01June 22, 1981View Liz Gordon × Betsy Nagelsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Betsy Nagelsen
2 meetings20August 14, 1989 — June 25, 1990View Betsy Nagelsen × 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.
- OriginM Cobb
- BridgeLiz Gordon
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginM Cobb
- BridgeLiz Gordon
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginM Cobb
- BridgeLiz Gordon
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginM Cobb
- BridgeLiz Gordon
- 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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