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
Denisa Szabova
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 meeting01December 30, 1991View Denisa Szabova × Magdalena Maleeva →02 BridgeOpen career →Magdalena Maleeva
4 meetings04March 20, 2000 — May 6, 2002View Magdalena Maleeva × 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.
- OriginDenisa Szabova
- BridgeBarbara Rittner
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginDenisa Szabova
- BridgeJulie Halard Decugis
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginDenisa Szabova
- BridgeSarah Pitkowski Malcor
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginDenisa Szabova
- BridgeLaura Golarsa
- 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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