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
Carol Houtchens
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 1 meeting10May 25, 1998View Serena Williams × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting01July 31, 1995View Jana Nejedly × Gigi Fernandez →03 BridgeOpen career →Gigi Fernandez
1 meeting10October 8, 1984View Gigi Fernandez × Felicia Raschiatore →04 BridgeOpen career →Felicia Raschiatore
1 meeting10June 21, 1982View Felicia Raschiatore × Carol Houtchens →05 DestinationOpen career →Carol Houtchens
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
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeGigi Fernandez
- BridgeFelicia Raschiatore
- DestinationCarol Houtchens
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeFelicia Raschiatore
- DestinationCarol Houtchens
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeFelicia Raschiatore
- DestinationCarol Houtchens
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMary Lou Piatek
- BridgeFelicia Raschiatore
- DestinationCarol Houtchens
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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