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
Jean Walker Smith
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
1 meeting01August 24, 1970View Chris Evert × Peaches Bartkowicz →04 BridgeOpen career →Peaches Bartkowicz
1 meeting10June 4, 1968View Peaches Bartkowicz × Jean Walker Smith →05 DestinationOpen career →Jean Walker Smith
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- DestinationJean Walker Smith
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- DestinationJean Walker Smith
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- DestinationJean Walker Smith
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- DestinationJean Walker Smith
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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