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
Mrs B L Evans
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →02 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
1 meeting10February 5, 1985View Steffi Graf × Virginia Wade →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
10 meetings64August 29, 1968 — November 16, 1970View Virginia Wade × Ann Jones →04 BridgeOpen career →Ann Jones
1 meeting10April 12, 1974View Ann Jones × Anne Lloyd →05 BridgeOpen career →Anne Lloyd
1 meeting10July 14, 1969View Anne Lloyd × Yvonne Grimwade →06 BridgeOpen career →Yvonne Grimwade
1 meeting10July 14, 1969View Yvonne Grimwade × Mrs B L Evans →07 DestinationOpen career →Mrs B L Evans
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeGail Hansen
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeYvonne Grimwade
- DestinationMrs B L Evans
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeSue Barker
- BridgeDi Riste
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeYvonne Grimwade
- DestinationMrs B L Evans
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeYvonne Grimwade
- DestinationMrs B L Evans
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeGail Hansen
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeYvonne Grimwade
- DestinationMrs B L Evans
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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