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
Martine Susini
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 meetings21May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000View Serena Williams × Nathalie Tauziat →02 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
1 meeting10October 12, 1987View Nathalie Tauziat × Virginia Ruzici →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Ruzici
1 meeting10May 26, 1975View Virginia Ruzici × Lea Pericoli →04 BridgeOpen career →Lea Pericoli
1 meeting10March 9, 1970View Lea Pericoli × Ilona Kurzova →05 BridgeOpen career →Ilona Kurzova
1 meeting10March 9, 1970View Ilona Kurzova × Martine Susini →06 DestinationOpen career →Martine Susini
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
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeIlona Kurzova
- DestinationMartine Susini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeIlona Kurzova
- DestinationMartine Susini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeIlona Kurzova
- DestinationMartine Susini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeOlga Morozova
- BridgeIlona Kurzova
- DestinationMartine Susini
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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