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
F Guidini
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Catherine Tanvier →03 BridgeOpen career →Catherine Tanvier
1 meeting10July 5, 1980View Catherine Tanvier × Viviana Gonzalez →04 BridgeOpen career →Viviana Gonzalez
1 meeting10July 22, 1980View Viviana Gonzalez × F Guidini →05 DestinationOpen career →F Guidini
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
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- DestinationF Guidini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeCatherine Tanvier
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- DestinationF Guidini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- BridgeMareen Louie Harper
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- DestinationF Guidini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeCatherine Tanvier
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- DestinationF Guidini
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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