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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.

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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Serena Williams
reaches
Thompson

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

4,976 players examined
  1. 2 meetings11January 11, 1999 — March 5, 1999
    View Serena Williams × Steffi Graf →
  2. 3 meetings12November 19, 1984 — January 27, 1986
    View Steffi Graf × Wendy Turnbull →
  3. 3 meetings21May 28, 1973 — June 26, 1978
    View Wendy Turnbull × Sue Mappin →
  4. 1 meeting10February 26, 1977
    View Sue Mappin × Lena Jacobsson →
  5. 1 meeting10February 19, 1979
    View Lena Jacobsson × Thompson →

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.

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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