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 Hosie
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings20October 1, 1989 — June 24, 1991View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Anne Minter →03 BridgeOpen career →Anne Minter
1 meeting10May 26, 1980View Anne Minter × Denise Cole →04 BridgeOpen career →Denise Cole
1 meeting10January 7, 1980View Denise Cole × C Tyrrell →05 BridgeOpen career →C Tyrrell
1 meeting10May 25, 1981View C Tyrrell × J Hosie →06 DestinationOpen career →J Hosie
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeC Tyrrell
- DestinationJ Hosie
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeSara Gomer
- BridgeJenny Blyth Lewis
- BridgeC Tyrrell
- DestinationJ Hosie
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeC Tyrrell
- DestinationJ Hosie
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeAnne Minter
- BridgeDenise Cole
- BridgeC Tyrrell
- DestinationJ Hosie
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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