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
Amani Khalifa
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 meeting10April 30, 2003View Amani Khalifa × Kelesitse Makgale →02 BridgeOpen career →Kelesitse Makgale
1 meeting01May 10, 1997View Kelesitse Makgale × Daphne Nicolatou →03 BridgeOpen career →Daphne Nicolatou
1 meeting01May 6, 1997View Daphne Nicolatou × Dally Randriantefy →04 BridgeOpen career →Dally Randriantefy
5 meetings05May 27, 2002 — April 4, 2005View Dally Randriantefy × 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.
- OriginAmani Khalifa
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- BridgeBiljana Trpeska
- BridgeDally Randriantefy
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAmani Khalifa
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- BridgeSarah Wetz
- BridgeDally Randriantefy
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAmani Khalifa
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- BridgeSarah Wetz
- BridgeChanelle Scheepers
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAmani Khalifa
- BridgeKelesitse Makgale
- BridgeChristine Vogt
- BridgeDally Randriantefy
- 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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