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 Kearney
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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 meeting01February 2, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Barbara Potter →03 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Potter
1 meeting10March 6, 1978View Barbara Potter × Lisa Kearney →04 DestinationOpen career →Lisa Kearney
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeBarbara Potter
- DestinationLisa Kearney
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- DestinationLisa Kearney
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeBarbara Potter
- DestinationLisa Kearney
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- DestinationLisa Kearney
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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