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
Stephanie Green
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 meetings11March 28, 1988 — May 23, 1988View Arantxa Sanchez Vicario × Chris Evert →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Evert
1 meeting10February 1, 1972View Chris Evert × Judy Tegart →04 BridgeOpen career →Judy Tegart
1 meeting10April 29, 1968View Judy Tegart × Emilie Burrer →05 BridgeOpen career →Emilie Burrer
1 meeting10July 8, 1968View Emilie Burrer × Stephanie Green →06 DestinationOpen career →Stephanie Green
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeMary Ann Eisel
- BridgePam Richmond
- DestinationStephanie Green
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeBecky Vest
- BridgePam Richmond
- DestinationStephanie Green
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeBecky Vest
- BridgeEmilie Burrer
- DestinationStephanie Green
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeChris Evert
- BridgeJanet Haas
- BridgePam Richmond
- DestinationStephanie Green
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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