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
Bianca Gorbea
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 22, 2004View Bianca Gorbea × Melissa Torres Sandoval →02 BridgeOpen career →Melissa Torres Sandoval
1 meeting10February 26, 2007View Melissa Torres Sandoval × Nicole Pratt →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Pratt
5 meetings05August 31, 1998 — September 16, 2002View Nicole Pratt × Serena Williams →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginBianca Gorbea
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- BridgeMeghann Shaughnessy
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginBianca Gorbea
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- BridgeMariana Diaz Oliva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginBianca Gorbea
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginBianca Gorbea
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- BridgeMaria Elena Camerin
- 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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