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
Anna Blinkova
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 1 meeting01June 23, 2025View Anna Blinkova × Maya Joint →02 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting10June 29, 2026View Maya Joint × Serena Williams →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAnna Blinkova
- BridgeVera Zvonareva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAnna Blinkova
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAnna Blinkova
- BridgeKateryna Bondarenko
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAnna Blinkova
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- 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.
Reverse the route →