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
Renate Ketterle
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
1 meeting10February 5, 1985View Steffi Graf × Virginia Wade →03 BridgeOpen career →Virginia Wade
1 meeting10July 31, 1968View Virginia Wade × Carol Sherriff →04 BridgeOpen career →Carol Sherriff
1 meeting10July 31, 1968View Carol Sherriff × Renate Ketterle →05 DestinationOpen career →Renate Ketterle
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
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeRenate Breuer
- DestinationRenate Ketterle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeRegina Marsikova
- BridgeCarol Sherriff
- DestinationRenate Ketterle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeKatja Ebbinghaus
- BridgeCarol Sherriff
- DestinationRenate Ketterle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Novotna
- BridgeRegina Marsikova
- BridgeCarol Sherriff
- DestinationRenate Ketterle
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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