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
Siobhan Drake Brockman
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings02January 9, 1995 — January 13, 1997View Siobhan Drake Brockman × Lisa Raymond →02 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Raymond
2 meetings02May 10, 1999 — June 26, 2000View Lisa Raymond × Serena Williams →03 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSiobhan Drake Brockman
- BridgeAnnabel Ellwood
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSiobhan Drake Brockman
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSiobhan Drake Brockman
- BridgeAdriana Gersi
- DestinationSerena Williams
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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