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
Claudia Razzeto
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 23, 2009View Claudia Razzeto × Ximena Hermoso →02 BridgeOpen career →Ximena Hermoso
1 meeting01April 1, 2013View Ximena Hermoso × Maria Kirilenko →03 BridgeOpen career →Maria Kirilenko
8 meetings08May 24, 2004 — September 30, 2013View Maria Kirilenko × 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.
- OriginClaudia Razzeto
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- BridgeSesil Karatantcheva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginClaudia Razzeto
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginClaudia Razzeto
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- BridgeJulia Goerges
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginClaudia Razzeto
- BridgeXimena Hermoso
- BridgeMagdalena Rybarikova
- 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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