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
Marianne Colon
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 meeting01October 12, 1987View Marianne Colon × Kim Labuschagne →02 BridgeOpen career →Kim Labuschagne
1 meeting01October 12, 1987View Kim Labuschagne × Elizabeth Minter →03 BridgeOpen career →Elizabeth Minter
1 meeting10June 20, 1988View Elizabeth Minter × Amy Frazier →04 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
3 meetings03August 14, 2000 — July 17, 2006View Amy Frazier × 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.
- OriginMarianne Colon
- BridgeKim Labuschagne
- BridgeElizabeth Minter
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarianne Colon
- BridgeKim Labuschagne
- BridgeElizabeth Minter
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarianne Colon
- BridgeKim Labuschagne
- BridgeElizabeth Minter
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarianne Colon
- BridgeKim Labuschagne
- BridgeElizabeth Minter
- BridgeKatrina Adams
- 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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