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
C Haynes
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11October 20, 1987 — April 3, 1989View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Sara Gomer →03 BridgeOpen career →Sara Gomer
1 meeting10April 13, 1981View Sara Gomer × Jenny Blyth Lewis →04 BridgeOpen career →Jenny Blyth Lewis
1 meeting10July 6, 1981View Jenny Blyth Lewis × C Haynes →05 DestinationOpen career →C Haynes
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
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeJenny Blyth Lewis
- DestinationC Haynes
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeJenny Blyth Lewis
- DestinationC Haynes
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeJenny Blyth Lewis
- DestinationC Haynes
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeJenny Blyth Lewis
- DestinationC Haynes
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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