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
L Piila
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
1 meeting10June 25, 1973View Chris Evert × Judith Dibar →04 BridgeOpen career →Judith Dibar
1 meeting01January 27, 1969View Judith Dibar × Eva Lundquist →05 BridgeOpen career →Eva Lundquist
1 meeting10July 8, 1968View Eva Lundquist × Katarina Bartholdson →06 BridgeOpen career →Katarina Bartholdson
1 meeting10July 25, 1968View Katarina Bartholdson × L Piila →07 DestinationOpen career →L Piila
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJudith Dibar
- BridgeTiiu Kivi
- BridgeKatarina Bartholdson
- DestinationL Piila
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMary Ann Eisel
- BridgeEva Lundquist
- BridgeKatarina Bartholdson
- DestinationL Piila
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeWinnie Shaw
- BridgeTiiu Kivi
- BridgeKatarina Bartholdson
- DestinationL Piila
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeChristina Sandberg
- BridgeEva Lundquist
- BridgeKatarina Bartholdson
- DestinationL Piila
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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