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
Beverly Corbie
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 1 meeting10May 25, 1998View Serena Williams × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting10August 7, 1995View Jana Nejedly × Angelica Gavaldon →03 BridgeOpen career →Angelica Gavaldon
1 meeting10July 21, 1990View Angelica Gavaldon × Beverly Corbie →04 DestinationOpen career →Beverly Corbie
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
- BridgeTzipi Obziler
- BridgeAngelica Gavaldon
- DestinationBeverly Corbie
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeAngelica Gavaldon
- DestinationBeverly Corbie
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeAngelica Gavaldon
- DestinationBeverly Corbie
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- BridgeAngelica Gavaldon
- DestinationBeverly Corbie
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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