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
Sheryl Tebbutt
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 1 meeting10June 22, 1998View Serena Williams × Laura Golarsa →02 BridgeOpen career →Laura Golarsa
1 meeting10September 9, 1985View Laura Golarsa × Mary Ann Colville →03 BridgeOpen career →Mary Ann Colville
1 meeting01January 7, 1980View Mary Ann Colville × Sheryl Tebbutt →04 DestinationOpen career →Sheryl Tebbutt
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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