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
D Norman
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
1 meeting10April 13, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Yvonne Vermaak →03 BridgeOpen career →Yvonne Vermaak
1 meeting01November 18, 1974View Yvonne Vermaak × Helen Liebenberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Helen Liebenberg
1 meeting01June 2, 1975View Helen Liebenberg × Gwen Stirton →05 BridgeOpen career →Gwen Stirton
1 meeting10May 26, 1975View Gwen Stirton × D Norman →06 DestinationOpen career →D Norman
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgePatti Hogan
- BridgeGwen Stirton
- DestinationD Norman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeChris Oneil
- BridgeGwen Stirton
- DestinationD Norman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgePeggy Michel
- BridgeGwen Stirton
- DestinationD Norman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeKaye Hallam
- BridgeGwen Stirton
- DestinationD Norman
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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