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
Virginie Paquet
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 3 meetings30July 24, 1999 — May 13, 2002View Serena Williams × Rita Grande →02 BridgeOpen career →Rita Grande
1 meeting10January 3, 1994View Rita Grande × Karine Quentrec →03 BridgeOpen career →Karine Quentrec
1 meeting01August 1, 1988View Karine Quentrec × Virginie Paquet →04 DestinationOpen career →Virginie Paquet
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
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgeSabrina Goles
- DestinationVirginie Paquet
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- BridgePetra Huber
- DestinationVirginie Paquet
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- BridgeSilke Frankl
- DestinationVirginie Paquet
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- BridgeKarine Quentrec
- DestinationVirginie Paquet
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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