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
Marilyn Straw
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 26, 1970View Marilyn Straw × Vicky Smouse →02 BridgeOpen career →Vicky Smouse
1 meeting01May 6, 1972View Vicky Smouse × Terry Holladay →03 BridgeOpen career →Terry Holladay
1 meeting01September 30, 1985View Terry Holladay × Mary Joe Fernandez →04 BridgeOpen career →Mary Joe Fernandez
1 meeting10May 24, 1999View Mary Joe Fernandez × Serena Williams →05 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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