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
Grit Schneider
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →02 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →03 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
4 meetings04June 12, 1972 — November 27, 1978View Wendy Turnbull × Olga Morozova →04 BridgeOpen career →Olga Morozova
1 meeting10March 11, 1968View Olga Morozova × Brigitte Hoffmann →05 BridgeOpen career →Brigitte Hoffmann
1 meeting01August 5, 1980View Brigitte Hoffmann × Christine Schulz →06 BridgeOpen career →Christine Schulz
1 meeting10August 3, 1982View Christine Schulz × Grit Schneider →07 DestinationOpen career →Grit Schneider
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeBrigitte Hoffmann
- BridgeChristine Schulz
- DestinationGrit Schneider
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeBrigitte Hoffmann
- BridgeChristine Schulz
- DestinationGrit Schneider
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeBrigitte Hoffmann
- BridgeChristine Schulz
- DestinationGrit Schneider
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeBrigitte Hoffmann
- BridgeChristine Schulz
- DestinationGrit Schneider
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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