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
K Lonergan
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 2 meetings11June 24, 2002 — August 4, 2002View Serena Williams × Chanda Rubin →02 BridgeOpen career →Chanda Rubin
1 meeting10February 6, 1995View Chanda Rubin × Sophie Amiach →03 BridgeOpen career →Sophie Amiach
1 meeting10July 7, 1980View Sophie Amiach × Jackie Monsour →04 BridgeOpen career →Jackie Monsour
1 meeting10January 7, 1980View Jackie Monsour × K Lonergan →05 DestinationOpen career →K Lonergan
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
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeJackie Monsour
- DestinationK Lonergan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Rittner
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeJackie Monsour
- DestinationK Lonergan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeJackie Monsour
- DestinationK Lonergan
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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