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
Evagreth Emmenegger
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 3 meetings30July 24, 1999 — May 13, 2002View Serena Williams × Rita Grande →02 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
1 meeting01March 17, 1995View Rita Grande × Elna Reinach →03 BridgeOpen career →Elna Reinach
1 meeting10December 29, 1986View Elna Reinach × Naoko Sato →04 BridgeOpen career →Naoko Sato
1 meeting10July 7, 1975View Naoko Sato × Evagreth Emmenegger →05 DestinationOpen career →Evagreth Emmenegger
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
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeElna Reinach
- BridgeNaoko Sato
- DestinationEvagreth Emmenegger
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgePam Shriver
- BridgeMona Guerrant
- DestinationEvagreth Emmenegger
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeElna Reinach
- BridgeNaoko Sato
- DestinationEvagreth Emmenegger
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMona Guerrant
- DestinationEvagreth Emmenegger
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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