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 Thorn
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10August 14, 1989View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Pilar Vasquez →03 BridgeOpen career →Pilar Vasquez
1 meeting10March 22, 1982View Pilar Vasquez × Marsha Bladel →04 BridgeOpen career →Marsha Bladel
1 meeting10June 1, 1982View Marsha Bladel × L Thorn →05 DestinationOpen career →L Thorn
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
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- BridgePilar Vasquez
- BridgeMarsha Bladel
- DestinationL Thorn
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeMarsha Bladel
- DestinationL Thorn
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeSophie Amiach
- BridgeMarsha Bladel
- DestinationL Thorn
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeMichelle Torres
- BridgeMarsha Bladel
- DestinationL Thorn
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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