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
Barbara Goldman
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 3 meetings30July 24, 1999 — May 13, 2002View Serena Williams × Rita Grande →02 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
1 meeting10August 26, 1996View Rita Grande × Alexia Dechaume Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Alexia Dechaume Balleret
1 meeting01August 6, 1990View Alexia Dechaume Balleret × Kathy May →04 BridgeOpen career →Kathy May
1 meeting10August 18, 1975View Kathy May × Barbara Goldman →05 DestinationOpen career →Barbara Goldman
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
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeKathy May
- DestinationBarbara Goldman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeAlexia Dechaume Balleret
- BridgeKathy May
- DestinationBarbara Goldman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeSheila Mcinerney
- DestinationBarbara Goldman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLuciana Corsato Owsianka
- BridgeSheila Mcinerney
- DestinationBarbara Goldman
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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