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
Jill Morton Beck
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 1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
2 meetings20August 5, 1996 — September 10, 1996View Silvija Talaja × Bettina Fulco →03 BridgeOpen career →Bettina Fulco
1 meeting01December 8, 1986View Bettina Fulco × Helena Manset →04 BridgeOpen career →Helena Manset
1 meeting10September 12, 1981View Helena Manset × Jill Morton Beck →05 DestinationOpen career →Jill Morton Beck
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
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeManon Bollegraf
- BridgeHelena Manset
- DestinationJill Morton Beck
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeNicole Jagerman
- BridgeHelena Manset
- DestinationJill Morton Beck
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeBettina Fulco
- BridgeHelena Manset
- DestinationJill Morton Beck
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeManon Bollegraf
- BridgeHelena Manset
- DestinationJill Morton Beck
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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