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
Sally Hitt
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 7 meetings34January 11, 1998 — August 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Arantxa Sanchez Vicario →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
2 meetings11April 4, 1988 — April 30, 1990View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Sylvia Hanika →03 BridgeOpen career →Sylvia Hanika
1 meeting10November 27, 1978View Sylvia Hanika × Vera Lucia Giugni →04 BridgeOpen career →Vera Lucia Giugni
1 meeting10January 1, 1968View Vera Lucia Giugni × Maria Cristina Diaz →05 BridgeOpen career →Maria Cristina Diaz
1 meeting10January 22, 1968View Maria Cristina Diaz × Sally Hitt →06 DestinationOpen career →Sally Hitt
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeVera Lucia Giugni
- BridgeMaria Cristina Diaz
- DestinationSally Hitt
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeVera Lucia Giugni
- BridgeMaria Cristina Diaz
- DestinationSally Hitt
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeVera Lucia Giugni
- BridgeMaria Cristina Diaz
- DestinationSally Hitt
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- BridgeSylvia Hanika
- BridgeVera Lucia Giugni
- BridgeMaria Cristina Diaz
- DestinationSally Hitt
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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