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
Josiane Graas
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 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
2 meetings20July 31, 1973 — June 14, 1976View Chris Evert × Christina Sandberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Christina Sandberg
1 meeting01May 13, 1974View Christina Sandberg × Barbara Kral →05 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Kral
1 meeting10May 13, 1974View Barbara Kral × Josiane Graas →06 DestinationOpen career →Josiane Graas
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
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKatalin Borka
- BridgeBarbara Kral
- DestinationJosiane Graas
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeIris Riedel Kuhn
- BridgeBarbara Kral
- DestinationJosiane Graas
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeEva Szabo
- BridgeBarbara Kral
- DestinationJosiane Graas
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeBeatriz Araujo
- BridgeMaria Victoria De Moggio
- DestinationJosiane Graas
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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