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 M Williams
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 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
3 meetings30August 21, 1971 — June 20, 1977View Chris Evert × Winnie Shaw →04 BridgeOpen career →Winnie Shaw
1 meeting10November 8, 1971View Winnie Shaw × Penelope Hardgrave →05 BridgeOpen career →Penelope Hardgrave
1 meeting10June 1, 1970View Penelope Hardgrave × A M Williams →06 DestinationOpen career →A M Williams
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJoyce Williams
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- DestinationA M Williams
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- DestinationA M Williams
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJoyce Williams
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- DestinationA M Williams
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeSue Mappin
- BridgePenelope Hardgrave
- DestinationA M 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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