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
Rapcsak
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 3 meetings30August 14, 2000 — July 17, 2006View Serena Williams × Amy Frazier →02 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
2 meetings02January 9, 1989 — August 7, 1989View Amy Frazier × Hana Mandlikova →03 BridgeOpen career →Hana Mandlikova
1 meeting10May 19, 1980View Hana Mandlikova × Judith Szorenyi →04 BridgeOpen career →Judith Szorenyi
1 meeting10July 20, 1970View Judith Szorenyi × V Duday →05 BridgeOpen career →V Duday
1 meeting10July 20, 1970View V Duday × Rapcsak →06 DestinationOpen career →Rapcsak
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
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeJudith Szorenyi
- BridgeV Duday
- DestinationRapcsak
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeJudith Szorenyi
- BridgeV Duday
- DestinationRapcsak
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeHana Mandlikova
- BridgeJudith Szorenyi
- BridgeV Duday
- DestinationRapcsak
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeWendy Turnbull
- BridgePamela Austin
- BridgeV Duday
- DestinationRapcsak
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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