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 Harris
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
5 meetings41January 20, 1969 — March 25, 1974View Chris Evert × Mary Ann Eisel →04 BridgeOpen career →Mary Ann Eisel
1 meeting10January 20, 1969View Mary Ann Eisel × Jane Hancock →05 BridgeOpen career →Jane Hancock
1 meeting10July 7, 1980View Jane Hancock × R Harvie →06 BridgeOpen career →R Harvie
1 meeting10July 7, 1980View R Harvie × A Harris →07 DestinationOpen career →A Harris
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- BridgeAmreeta Ahluwalia
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeJudy Erskine
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeBrenda Remilton
- BridgeJane Hancock
- BridgeR Harvie
- DestinationA Harris
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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