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
Merrilee Keller
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 1 meeting10August 10, 1998View Serena Williams × Larisa Savchenko →02 BridgeOpen career →Larisa Savchenko
2 meetings11March 3, 1986 — October 27, 1986View Larisa Savchenko × Tina Mochizuki →03 BridgeOpen career →Tina Mochizuki
1 meeting10July 28, 1980View Tina Mochizuki × Nancy Harris →04 BridgeOpen career →Nancy Harris
1 meeting10June 1, 1982View Nancy Harris × Merrilee Keller →05 DestinationOpen career →Merrilee Keller
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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