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
Cynthia Ashling
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
3 meetings21June 4, 1979 — June 8, 1980View Pam Shriver × Tanya Harford →04 BridgeOpen career →Tanya Harford
1 meeting10October 23, 1978View Tanya Harford × Cynthia Ashling →05 DestinationOpen career →Cynthia Ashling
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
- BridgeKathy Rinaldi Stunkel
- BridgeTanya Harford
- DestinationCynthia Ashling
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLouise Allen
- BridgeKelly Henry
- DestinationCynthia Ashling
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeCarrie Meyer
- DestinationCynthia Ashling
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKelly Henry
- DestinationCynthia Ashling
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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