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
Pamela Southcombe
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 2 meetings20January 17, 2000 — February 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Sabine Appelmans →02 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
1 meeting10July 6, 1987View Sabine Appelmans × Nanette Schutte →03 BridgeOpen career →Nanette Schutte
1 meeting10June 9, 1980View Nanette Schutte × Julie Peters →04 BridgeOpen career →Julie Peters
1 meeting01November 29, 1976View Julie Peters × Pamela Southcombe →05 DestinationOpen career →Pamela Southcombe
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
- BridgeAmy Frazier
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeLeanne Harrison Austin
- DestinationPamela Southcombe
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeLeanne Harrison Austin
- DestinationPamela Southcombe
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeLeanne Harrison Austin
- DestinationPamela Southcombe
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeAmanda Tobin
- BridgeLeanne Harrison Austin
- DestinationPamela Southcombe
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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