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 Desouza
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 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
1 meeting10August 30, 1983View Chris Evert × Shelly Walpole →04 BridgeOpen career →Shelly Walpole
1 meeting10April 19, 1982View Shelly Walpole × Linda Gai Bayly →05 BridgeOpen career →Linda Gai Bayly
1 meeting10April 8, 1982View Linda Gai Bayly × M Desouza →06— DestinationOpen career →M Desouza
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeKate Brasher
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- —DestinationM Desouza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- —DestinationM Desouza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLisa Raymond
- BridgeRosalyn Fairbank
- BridgeElizabeth Jones
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- —DestinationM Desouza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeKate Brasher
- BridgeLinda Gai Bayly
- —DestinationM Desouza
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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