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
Ellen Wilkinson
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 1 meeting10March 18, 1999View Serena Williams × Amanda Coetzer →02 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Coetzer
1 meeting10April 3, 1989View Amanda Coetzer × Candy Reynolds →03 BridgeOpen career →Candy Reynolds
2 meetings02June 25, 1973 — August 18, 1975View Candy Reynolds × Carrie Fleming →04 BridgeOpen career →Carrie Fleming
1 meeting10June 25, 1973View Carrie Fleming × Kathy Morton →05 BridgeOpen career →Kathy Morton
1 meeting10June 25, 1973View Kathy Morton × Ellen Wilkinson →06 DestinationOpen career →Ellen Wilkinson
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
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeCarrie Fleming
- BridgeKathy Morton
- DestinationEllen Wilkinson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeCarrie Fleming
- BridgeKathy Morton
- DestinationEllen Wilkinson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeCarrie Fleming
- BridgeKathy Morton
- DestinationEllen Wilkinson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeCandy Reynolds
- BridgeCarrie Fleming
- BridgeKathy Morton
- DestinationEllen Wilkinson
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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