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
Nancy Weigel
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 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
1 meeting10April 25, 1996View Martina Hingis × Andrea Temesvari →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Temesvari
1 meeting10August 24, 1981View Andrea Temesvari × Iris Riedel Kuhn →04 BridgeOpen career →Iris Riedel Kuhn
1 meeting10March 6, 1978View Iris Riedel Kuhn × Nancy Weigel →05 DestinationOpen career →Nancy Weigel
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
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgePatricia Hy Boulais
- BridgeBarbara Hallquist
- DestinationNancy Weigel
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeSandra Cecchini
- BridgeCarmen Perea Alcala
- DestinationNancy Weigel
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeSandra Cecchini
- BridgeCarmen Perea Alcala
- DestinationNancy Weigel
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeHelen Asciak
- BridgeIris Riedel Kuhn
- DestinationNancy Weigel
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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