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
S Martin
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 28, 1979View S Martin × Cathy Drury →02 BridgeOpen career →Cathy Drury
1 meeting01December 19, 1977View Cathy Drury × Sue Barker →03 BridgeOpen career →Sue Barker
1 meeting01June 25, 1984View Sue Barker × Steffi Graf →04 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Steffi Graf × 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.
- OriginS Martin
- BridgeCathy Drury
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginS Martin
- BridgeCathy Drury
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginS Martin
- BridgeCathy Drury
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginS Martin
- BridgeCathy Drury
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- 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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