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
Brigitte Lorang
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 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →02 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
1 meeting01September 15, 1982View Steffi Graf × Lena Sandin →03 BridgeOpen career →Lena Sandin
1 meeting10April 30, 1979View Lena Sandin × Hagit Zubary →04 BridgeOpen career →Hagit Zubary
1 meeting10June 13, 1977View Hagit Zubary × Brigitte Lorang →05 DestinationOpen career →Brigitte Lorang
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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