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 Mayorkis
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 2 meetings11June 24, 2002 — August 4, 2002View Serena Williams × Chanda Rubin →02 BridgeOpen career →Chanda Rubin
1 meeting10March 11, 1994View Chanda Rubin × Andrea Vieira →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Vieira
1 meeting10October 25, 1993View Andrea Vieira × Stephanie Mayorkis →04 DestinationOpen career →Stephanie Mayorkis
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeAndrea Vieira
- DestinationStephanie Mayorkis
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAsa Carlsson
- BridgeAndrea Vieira
- DestinationStephanie Mayorkis
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJanet Lee
- BridgeAndrea Vieira
- DestinationStephanie Mayorkis
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeAndrea Vieira
- DestinationStephanie Mayorkis
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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