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
Penny Powell
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 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
1 meeting10April 1, 1974View Wendy Turnbull × Monica Rho →04 BridgeOpen career →Monica Rho
1 meeting10April 8, 1974View Monica Rho × Penny Powell →05 DestinationOpen career →Penny Powell
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
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMonica Rho
- DestinationPenny Powell
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeMonica Rho
- DestinationPenny Powell
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgeMonica Rho
- DestinationPenny Powell
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeMonica Rho
- DestinationPenny Powell
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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