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
Asha Burns
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 meeting01March 3, 2003View Asha Burns × Carolyn Mcgann →02 BridgeOpen career →Carolyn Mcgann
1 meeting01March 3, 2003View Carolyn Mcgann × Sarah Borwell →03 BridgeOpen career →Sarah Borwell
1 meeting01June 26, 2006View Sarah Borwell × Ana Ivanovic →04 BridgeOpen career →Ana Ivanovic
10 meetings19August 28, 2006 — August 17, 2015View Ana Ivanovic × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena 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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