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 K Adams
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
1 meeting01January 21, 1985View Larisa Savchenko × Sharon Walsh Pete →03 BridgeOpen career →Sharon Walsh Pete
2 meetings20October 13, 1970 — October 27, 1970View Sharon Walsh Pete × Janice Townsend →04 BridgeOpen career →Janice Townsend
1 meeting10April 8, 1968View Janice Townsend × Mrs K Adams →05 DestinationOpen career →Mrs K Adams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeJanice Townsend
- DestinationMrs K Adams
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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