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
Karla Golfin
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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
1 meeting10July 26, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Joni Van Ryck De Groot →03 BridgeOpen career →Joni Van Ryck De Groot
1 meeting01April 22, 1992View Joni Van Ryck De Groot × Karla Golfin →04 DestinationOpen career →Karla Golfin
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeStephanie Schaer
- DestinationKarla Golfin
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- BridgeYanet Nunez Mojarena
- DestinationKarla Golfin
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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