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
Alejandra Alvarez
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01May 17, 2011View Alejandra Alvarez × Marina Giral Lores →02 BridgeOpen career →Marina Giral Lores
1 meeting01April 26, 2008View Marina Giral Lores × Melisa Miranda Otarola →03 BridgeOpen career →Melisa Miranda Otarola
1 meeting01February 11, 2008View Melisa Miranda Otarola × Maria Elena Camerin →04 BridgeOpen career →Maria Elena Camerin
1 meeting01August 27, 2007View Maria Elena Camerin × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAlejandra Alvarez
- BridgeKerrie Cartwright
- BridgeStephanie Dubois
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAlejandra Alvarez
- BridgeKerrie Cartwright
- BridgeStephanie Dubois
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAlejandra Alvarez
- BridgeKerrie Cartwright
- BridgeStephanie Dubois
- BridgeTzipi Obziler
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAlejandra Alvarez
- BridgeKerrie Cartwright
- BridgeStephanie Dubois
- BridgeVirginie Razzano
- 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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