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
Ianthe Cunningham
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11June 24, 2002 — August 4, 2002View Serena Williams × Chanda Rubin →02 BridgeOpen career →Chanda Rubin
1 meeting10February 6, 1995View Chanda Rubin × Sophie Amiach →03 BridgeOpen career →Sophie Amiach
1 meeting01April 27, 1981View Sophie Amiach × Ianthe Cunningham →04 DestinationOpen career →Ianthe Cunningham
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- DestinationIanthe Cunningham
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Rittner
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- DestinationIanthe Cunningham
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeJennifer Mundel
- DestinationIanthe Cunningham
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- DestinationIanthe Cunningham
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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