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
Rita Cruz Lima
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 meeting01April 30, 1991View Rita Grande × Petra Thoren →03 BridgeOpen career →Petra Thoren
1 meeting10December 11, 1989View Petra Thoren × Rita Cruz Lima →04 DestinationOpen career →Rita Cruz Lima
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
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgePetra Thoren
- DestinationRita Cruz Lima
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- BridgePetra Thoren
- DestinationRita Cruz Lima
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgePetra Thoren
- DestinationRita Cruz Lima
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeIrina Spirlea
- BridgePetra Thoren
- DestinationRita Cruz Lima
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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