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
E Coles
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 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting10May 13, 1993View Silvija Talaja × Helen Asciak →03 BridgeOpen career →Helen Asciak
2 meetings02April 14, 1980 — April 27, 1980View Helen Asciak × Debbie Stewart →04 BridgeOpen career →Debbie Stewart
1 meeting10April 7, 1980View Debbie Stewart × E Coles →05 DestinationOpen career →E Coles
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
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeDebbie Stewart
- DestinationE Coles
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeDebbie Stewart
- DestinationE Coles
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeDebbie Stewart
- DestinationE Coles
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeDebbie Stewart
- DestinationE Coles
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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