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
G Livingstone
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 meetings21May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000View Serena Williams × Nathalie Tauziat →02 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
1 meeting10June 9, 1986View Nathalie Tauziat × Amanda Tobin →03 BridgeOpen career →Amanda Tobin
1 meeting10June 2, 1980View Amanda Tobin × Anne Tripp →04 BridgeOpen career →Anne Tripp
1 meeting10July 9, 1979View Anne Tripp × G Livingstone →05 DestinationOpen career →G Livingstone
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeMarjorie Love
- DestinationG Livingstone
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeMarjorie Love
- DestinationG Livingstone
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeMarjorie Love
- DestinationG Livingstone
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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