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
Rosemary Rae
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 3 meetings21May 4, 1998 — February 7, 2000View Serena Williams × Nathalie Tauziat →02 BridgeOpen career →Nathalie Tauziat
1 meeting10October 20, 1987View Nathalie Tauziat × Mima Jausovec →03 BridgeOpen career →Mima Jausovec
1 meeting10August 16, 1976View Mima Jausovec × Vera Komar →04 BridgeOpen career →Vera Komar
1 meeting10January 20, 1975View Vera Komar × Rosemary Rae →05 DestinationOpen career →Rosemary Rae
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
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeVera Komar
- DestinationRosemary Rae
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeVera Komar
- DestinationRosemary Rae
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeVera Komar
- DestinationRosemary Rae
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Joe Fernandez
- BridgeAnne Hobbs
- BridgeVera Komar
- DestinationRosemary Rae
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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