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
O Martinet
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 4 meetings40March 20, 2000 — May 6, 2002View Serena Williams × Magdalena Maleeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Maleeva
1 meeting10July 30, 1990View Magdalena Maleeva × Kathy Jordan →03 BridgeOpen career →Kathy Jordan
1 meeting10June 26, 1978View Kathy Jordan × Viviana Gonzalez →04 BridgeOpen career →Viviana Gonzalez
1 meeting10July 22, 1980View Viviana Gonzalez × C Benzon →05 BridgeOpen career →C Benzon
1 meeting10July 22, 1980View C Benzon × O Martinet →06 DestinationOpen career →O Martinet
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
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeMima Jausovec
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- BridgeC Benzon
- DestinationO Martinet
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeKathy Jordan
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- BridgeC Benzon
- DestinationO Martinet
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- BridgeKathy Jordan
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- BridgeC Benzon
- DestinationO Martinet
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeViviana Gonzalez
- BridgeC Benzon
- DestinationO Martinet
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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