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
Iris Thompson
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10April 25, 1996View Martina Hingis × Andrea Temesvari →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Temesvari
1 meeting01July 17, 1983View Andrea Temesvari × Ivanna Madruga →04 BridgeOpen career →Ivanna Madruga
1 meeting10June 5, 1979View Ivanna Madruga × Iris Thompson →05 DestinationOpen career →Iris Thompson
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeGabriela Sabatini
- BridgeIvanna Madruga
- DestinationIris Thompson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeSandra Cecchini
- BridgeIvanna Madruga
- DestinationIris Thompson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeSandra Cecchini
- BridgeIvanna Madruga
- DestinationIris Thompson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeNathalie Herreman
- BridgeIvanna Madruga
- DestinationIris Thompson
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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