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
Linda Ferrando
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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
4 meetings40May 2, 1988 — August 29, 1994View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Linda Ferrando →03 DestinationOpen career →Linda Ferrando
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- DestinationLinda Ferrando
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- DestinationLinda Ferrando
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationLinda Ferrando
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- DestinationLinda Ferrando
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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