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 Llahi
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →02 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →03 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
2 meetings02January 25, 1971 — January 1, 1974View Wendy Turnbull × Kazuko Sawamatsu →04 BridgeOpen career →Kazuko Sawamatsu
1 meeting10December 2, 1974View Kazuko Sawamatsu × G Maxwell →05 BridgeOpen career →G Maxwell
1 meeting10June 9, 1980View G Maxwell × A Llahi →06— DestinationOpen career →A Llahi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeSusan Minford
- BridgeG Maxwell
- —DestinationA Llahi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeKazuko Sawamatsu
- BridgeG Maxwell
- —DestinationA Llahi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeSusan Minford
- BridgeG Maxwell
- —DestinationA Llahi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeJoan Walker
- BridgeG Maxwell
- —DestinationA Llahi
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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