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
Paula Albert
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
3 meetings30June 24, 1996 — July 21, 1997View Martina Hingis × Linda Wild →03 BridgeOpen career →Linda Wild
1 meeting01August 1, 1972View Linda Wild × Fiorella Bonicelli →04 BridgeOpen career →Fiorella Bonicelli
1 meeting01July 28, 1969View Fiorella Bonicelli × Pat Stewart →05 BridgeOpen career →Pat Stewart
1 meeting10May 27, 1968View Pat Stewart × Kay Hubbell →06 BridgeOpen career →Kay Hubbell
1 meeting10May 27, 1968View Kay Hubbell × Paula Albert →07 DestinationOpen career →Paula Albert
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeLinda Wild
- BridgeFiorella Bonicelli
- BridgePat Stewart
- BridgeKay Hubbell
- DestinationPaula Albert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLinda Wild
- BridgeFiorella Bonicelli
- BridgePat Stewart
- BridgeKay Hubbell
- DestinationPaula Albert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeLinda Wild
- BridgeFiorella Bonicelli
- BridgePat Stewart
- BridgeKay Hubbell
- DestinationPaula Albert
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLinda Wild
- BridgeFiorella Bonicelli
- BridgePat Stewart
- BridgeKay Hubbell
- DestinationPaula Albert
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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