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 Zimbalist
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 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →02 BridgeOpen career →Steffi Graf
3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →03 BridgeOpen career →Wendy Turnbull
2 meetings11March 15, 1976 — August 9, 1976View Wendy Turnbull × Mary Struthers →04 BridgeOpen career →Mary Struthers
1 meeting10May 5, 1969View Mary Struthers × Deborah Brown →05 BridgeOpen career →Deborah Brown
1 meeting10May 5, 1969View Deborah Brown × Nancy Zimbalist →06 DestinationOpen career →Nancy Zimbalist
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
- BridgeDianne Fromholtz
- BridgeMary Struthers
- BridgeDeborah Brown
- DestinationNancy Zimbalist
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMary Struthers
- BridgeDeborah Brown
- DestinationNancy Zimbalist
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMary Struthers
- BridgeDeborah Brown
- DestinationNancy Zimbalist
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMary Struthers
- BridgeDeborah Brown
- DestinationNancy Zimbalist
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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