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
Maria Cristina Borba Dias
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 meeting10August 26, 1996View Sandrine Testud × Pam Shriver →03 BridgeOpen career →Pam Shriver
4 meetings40March 6, 1978 — April 8, 1985View Pam Shriver × Kerry Reid →04 BridgeOpen career →Kerry Reid
1 meeting10May 22, 1968View Kerry Reid × Maria Cristina Borba Dias →05 DestinationOpen career →Maria Cristina Borba Dias
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
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeKerry Reid
- DestinationMaria Cristina Borba Dias
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeNancy Richey
- DestinationMaria Cristina Borba Dias
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeKerry Reid
- DestinationMaria Cristina Borba Dias
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeMartina Navratilova
- BridgeNancy Richey
- DestinationMaria Cristina Borba Dias
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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