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
Rosa Riboldi
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 2 meetings02July 28, 1980 — August 4, 1980View Rosa Riboldi × Helen Luscombe →02 BridgeOpen career →Helen Luscombe
2 meetings02July 16, 1979 — May 4, 1981View Helen Luscombe × Ellinore Lightbody →03 BridgeOpen career →Ellinore Lightbody
1 meeting01July 21, 1990View Ellinore Lightbody × Larisa Savchenko →04 BridgeOpen career →Larisa Savchenko
1 meeting01August 10, 1998View Larisa Savchenko × 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.
- OriginRosa Riboldi
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeKim Steinmetz
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginRosa Riboldi
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginRosa Riboldi
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginRosa Riboldi
- BridgeElizabetta Lazzeri
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeBarbara Rittner
- 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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