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
Lori Sherbeck
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 3 meetings30July 24, 1999 — May 13, 2002View Serena Williams × Rita Grande →02 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
1 meeting10August 1, 1994View Rita Grande × Robin White →03 BridgeOpen career →Robin White
1 meeting10May 3, 1982View Robin White × Cathie Gagel →04 BridgeOpen career →Cathie Gagel
1 meeting10July 6, 1970View Cathie Gagel × Sally Ride →05 BridgeOpen career →Sally Ride
1 meeting10April 25, 1972View Sally Ride × Lori Sherbeck →06 DestinationOpen career →Lori Sherbeck
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeRobin White
- BridgeCathie Gagel
- BridgeSally Ride
- DestinationLori Sherbeck
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeJean Nachand
- BridgeSally Ride
- DestinationLori Sherbeck
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeJean Nachand
- BridgeSally Ride
- DestinationLori Sherbeck
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeBetsy Nagelsen
- BridgeJean Nachand
- BridgeSally Ride
- DestinationLori Sherbeck
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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