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
Sue Rasmussen
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 5 meetings50August 31, 1998 — September 16, 2002View Serena Williams × Nicole Pratt →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Pratt
1 meeting10January 15, 1990View Nicole Pratt × Heather Ludloff →03 BridgeOpen career →Heather Ludloff
1 meeting01July 14, 1980View Heather Ludloff × Sue Rasmussen →04 DestinationOpen career →Sue Rasmussen
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
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- DestinationSue Rasmussen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNathalie Tauziat
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- DestinationSue Rasmussen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLaura Golarsa
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- DestinationSue Rasmussen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKimberly Po Messerli
- BridgeHeather Ludloff
- DestinationSue Rasmussen
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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