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
Sanden
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 meetings30August 14, 2000 — July 17, 2006View Serena Williams × Amy Frazier →02 BridgeOpen career →Amy Frazier
4 meetings40July 3, 1989 — March 23, 1992View Amy Frazier × Camille Benjamin →03 BridgeOpen career →Camille Benjamin
1 meeting10July 5, 1982View Camille Benjamin × Linda Cassell →04 BridgeOpen career →Linda Cassell
1 meeting01July 20, 1981View Linda Cassell × Sanden →05 DestinationOpen career →Sanden
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
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeLinda Cassell
- DestinationSanden
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeLinda Cassell
- DestinationSanden
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJennifer Capriati
- BridgeCamille Benjamin
- BridgeLinda Cassell
- DestinationSanden
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeAmanda Tobin
- BridgeLinda Cassell
- DestinationSanden
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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