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
Elena Micic
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 meeting01June 23, 2025View Elena Micic × Victoria Rodriguez →02 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Rodriguez
1 meeting01February 29, 2016View Victoria Rodriguez × Christina Mchale →03 BridgeOpen career →Christina Mchale
4 meetings04March 21, 2016 — January 6, 2020View Christina Mchale × 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.
- OriginElena Micic
- BridgeVictoria Rodriguez
- BridgeAjla Tomljanovic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginElena Micic
- BridgeVictoria Rodriguez
- BridgeMargarita Gasparyan
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginElena Micic
- BridgeQinwen Zheng
- BridgeVenus Williams
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginElena Micic
- BridgeQinwen Zheng
- BridgeVera Zvonareva
- 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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