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
Renata Kochta
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20May 10, 1999 — June 26, 2000View Serena Williams × Lisa Raymond →02 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Raymond
1 meeting10November 9, 1992View Lisa Raymond × Beverly Bowes →03 BridgeOpen career →Beverly Bowes
1 meeting10July 26, 1993View Beverly Bowes × Renata Kochta →04 DestinationOpen career →Renata Kochta
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeBeverly Bowes
- DestinationRenata Kochta
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeBeverly Bowes
- DestinationRenata Kochta
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeBeverly Bowes
- DestinationRenata Kochta
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLindsay Davenport
- BridgeBeverly Bowes
- DestinationRenata Kochta
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.
Reverse the route →