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
Rene Mentz
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 3 meetings30July 24, 1999 — May 13, 2002View Serena Williams × Rita Grande →02 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
1 meeting01May 6, 1991View Rita Grande × Nathalie Herreman →03 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Herreman
1 meeting10May 28, 1984View Nathalie Herreman × Rene Mentz →04 DestinationOpen career →Rene Mentz
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
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeGigi Fernandez
- DestinationRene Mentz
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeGigi Fernandez
- DestinationRene Mentz
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeGigi Fernandez
- DestinationRene Mentz
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeNathalie Herreman
- DestinationRene Mentz
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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