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
Denise Parker
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
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
2 meetings20November 1, 1976 — February 7, 1977View Chris Evert × Linda Mottram →04 BridgeOpen career →Linda Mottram
1 meeting10April 28, 1975View Linda Mottram × Meryl Robinson →05 BridgeOpen career →Meryl Robinson
1 meeting10May 23, 1977View Meryl Robinson × Denise Parker →06 DestinationOpen career →Denise Parker
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
- BridgeMeryl Robinson
- DestinationDenise Parker
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeLesley Charles
- BridgeMeryl Robinson
- DestinationDenise Parker
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeChris Newton
- BridgeMeryl Robinson
- DestinationDenise Parker
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgePatti Hogan
- BridgeMeryl Robinson
- DestinationDenise Parker
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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