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
Lisa Beritzhoff
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 meeting10June 15, 1992View Sandrine Testud × Louise Allen →03 BridgeOpen career →Louise Allen
1 meeting10July 12, 1982View Louise Allen × Kate Brasher →04 BridgeOpen career →Kate Brasher
1 meeting10May 22, 1978View Kate Brasher × Lisa Beritzhoff →05 DestinationOpen career →Lisa Beritzhoff
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
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeKate Brasher
- DestinationLisa Beritzhoff
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeLiz Smylie
- BridgeKate Brasher
- DestinationLisa Beritzhoff
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeJo Durie
- BridgeKate Brasher
- DestinationLisa Beritzhoff
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeKim Steinmetz
- BridgeKate Brasher
- DestinationLisa Beritzhoff
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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