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
M Cass
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1 meeting10May 25, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Gabriela Dinu →03 BridgeOpen career →Gabriela Dinu
1 meeting10April 14, 1980View Gabriela Dinu × Kim Hotston →04 BridgeOpen career →Kim Hotston
1 meeting10April 6, 1981View Kim Hotston × M Cass →05 DestinationOpen career →M Cass
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeGabriela Dinu
- BridgeKim Hotston
- DestinationM Cass
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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