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
Lindner
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 8 meetings53January 11, 1998 — October 30, 2001View Serena Williams × Sandrine Testud →02 BridgeOpen career →Sandrine Testud
1 meeting01April 11, 1994View Sandrine Testud × Sandra Wasserman →03 BridgeOpen career →Sandra Wasserman
1 meeting10October 6, 1985View Sandra Wasserman × Claudia Van Der Weck →04 BridgeOpen career →Claudia Van Der Weck
1 meeting10July 19, 1980View Claudia Van Der Weck × Lindner →05 DestinationOpen career →Lindner
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
- BridgeSandra Wasserman
- BridgeClaudia Van Der Weck
- DestinationLindner
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeSandra Wasserman
- BridgeClaudia Van Der Weck
- DestinationLindner
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- BridgeSandra Wasserman
- BridgeClaudia Van Der Weck
- DestinationLindner
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeSandra Wasserman
- BridgeClaudia Van Der Weck
- DestinationLindner
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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