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 Myers
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 meeting10April 13, 1987View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Yvonne Vermaak →03 BridgeOpen career →Yvonne Vermaak
1 meeting10August 4, 1984View Yvonne Vermaak × Karen Smith →04 BridgeOpen career →Karen Smith
1 meeting10August 2, 1982View Karen Smith × Maria Myers →05 DestinationOpen career →Maria Myers
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
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeCatherine Suire
- BridgeJaime Kaplan
- DestinationMaria Myers
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- BridgeCatherine Suire
- BridgeJaime Kaplan
- DestinationMaria Myers
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeMarcella Mesker
- BridgeKaren Smith
- DestinationMaria Myers
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeYvonne Vermaak
- BridgeKaren Smith
- DestinationMaria Myers
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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