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
Serena Williams
reaches
A Gilleaux
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10September 21, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Iva Budarova →03 BridgeOpen career →Iva Budarova
1 meeting10October 9, 1978View Iva Budarova × Susana Maria Villaverde →04 BridgeOpen career →Susana Maria Villaverde
1 meeting10July 22, 1980View Susana Maria Villaverde × A Gilleaux →05 DestinationOpen career →A Gilleaux
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.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- BridgeSusana Maria Villaverde
- DestinationA Gilleaux
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeEva Krapl
- BridgeSusana Maria Villaverde
- DestinationA Gilleaux
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeIwona Kuczynska
- BridgeSusana Maria Villaverde
- DestinationA Gilleaux
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeSandy Collins
- BridgeSusana Maria Villaverde
- DestinationA Gilleaux
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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