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
J Hibbert
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 meeting01June 15, 1987View Nathalie Tauziat × Anne Hobbs →03 BridgeOpen career →Anne Hobbs
1 meeting10May 8, 1978View Anne Hobbs × Sally Chapman →04 BridgeOpen career →Sally Chapman
1 meeting10February 3, 1980View Sally Chapman × J Hibbert →05 DestinationOpen career →J Hibbert
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
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeSally Chapman
- DestinationJ Hibbert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeSally Chapman
- DestinationJ Hibbert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeSally Chapman
- DestinationJ Hibbert
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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