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
Ariana Rodriguez
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 12, 2014View Ariana Rodriguez × Olivia Bennett →02 BridgeOpen career →Olivia Bennett
1 meeting01April 19, 2007View Olivia Bennett × Rossana De Los Rios →03 BridgeOpen career →Rossana De Los Rios
2 meetings11October 14, 2002 — April 7, 2003View Rossana De Los Rios × Silvija Talaja →04 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting01May 24, 2004View Silvija Talaja × 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.
- OriginAriana Rodriguez
- BridgeOlivia Bennett
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAriana Rodriguez
- BridgeOlivia Bennett
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAriana Rodriguez
- BridgeOlivia Bennett
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginAriana Rodriguez
- BridgeOlivia Bennett
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- 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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