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
Baerbel Kehl
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meetings11May 9, 1988 — October 10, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Eva Pfaff →03 BridgeOpen career →Eva Pfaff
1 meeting10August 3, 1981View Eva Pfaff × Baerbel Kehl →04 DestinationOpen career →Baerbel Kehl
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- DestinationBaerbel Kehl
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- DestinationBaerbel Kehl
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- DestinationBaerbel Kehl
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeEva Pfaff
- DestinationBaerbel Kehl
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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