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
Chris Thomas
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 8 meetings53January 11, 1998 — October 30, 2001View Serena Williams × Sandrine Testud →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
1 meeting10August 26, 1996View Sandrine Testud × Pam Shriver →03 BridgeOpen career →Pam Shriver
2 meetings20November 26, 1979 — December 10, 1979View Pam Shriver × Janet Newberry →04 BridgeOpen career →Janet Newberry
1 meeting10June 6, 1977View Janet Newberry × Chris Thomas →05 DestinationOpen career →Chris Thomas
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- DestinationChris Thomas
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- DestinationChris Thomas
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- DestinationChris Thomas
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeJanet Newberry
- DestinationChris Thomas
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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