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
Yvonne Grimwade
reaches
Serena Williams
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
01 1 meeting01July 14, 1969View Yvonne Grimwade × Anne Lloyd →02 BridgeOpen career →Anne Lloyd
1 meeting01April 12, 1974View Anne Lloyd × Ann Jones →03 BridgeOpen career →Ann Jones
1 meeting10October 27, 1970View Ann Jones × Sharon Walsh Pete →04 BridgeOpen career →Sharon Walsh Pete
1 meeting10January 21, 1985View Sharon Walsh Pete × Larisa Savchenko →05 BridgeOpen career →Larisa Savchenko
1 meeting01August 10, 1998View Larisa Savchenko × Serena Williams →06 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
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.
- OriginYvonne Grimwade
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeSharon Walsh Pete
- BridgeJana Novotna
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginYvonne Grimwade
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeVirginia Wade
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginYvonne Grimwade
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeJamie Golder
- BridgeKatrina Adams
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginYvonne Grimwade
- BridgeAnne Lloyd
- BridgeAnn Jones
- BridgeJamie Golder
- BridgeLaura Golarsa
- 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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