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 Thompson
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10April 25, 1996View Martina Hingis × Andrea Temesvari →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Temesvari
1 meeting10April 6, 1981View Andrea Temesvari × Karen Gulley →04 BridgeOpen career →Karen Gulley
1 meeting10April 24, 1978View Karen Gulley × K Thompson →05 DestinationOpen career →K Thompson
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
- DestinationK Thompson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeKaren Gulley
- DestinationK Thompson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeCorinne Molesworth
- DestinationK Thompson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeKaren Gulley
- DestinationK Thompson
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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