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 Desouza
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 meeting01April 8, 1982View M Desouza × Linda Gai Bayly →02 BridgeOpen career →Linda Gai Bayly
1 meeting01April 8, 1982View Linda Gai Bayly × Elizabeth Jones →03 BridgeOpen career →Elizabeth Jones
1 meeting10October 19, 1981View Elizabeth Jones × Rosalyn Fairbank →04 BridgeOpen career →Rosalyn Fairbank
2 meetings02April 17, 1989 — March 12, 1993View Rosalyn Fairbank × 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.
- —OriginM Desouza
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- DestinationSerena Williams
- —OriginM Desouza
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationSerena Williams
- —OriginM Desouza
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- —OriginM Desouza
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- 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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