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
Elrien De Villiers
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 2 meetings02April 29, 2005 — April 28, 2006View Elrien De Villiers × Dijana Stojic →02 BridgeOpen career →Dijana Stojic
1 meeting01April 17, 2007View Dijana Stojic × Neuza Silva →03 BridgeOpen career →Neuza Silva
1 meeting01June 22, 2009View Neuza Silva × 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.
- OriginElrien De Villiers
- BridgeAliaa Fakhry
- BridgeMonica Niculescu
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginElrien De Villiers
- BridgeSelma Babic
- BridgeNeuza Silva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginElrien De Villiers
- BridgeMarina Novak
- BridgeAnne Kremer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginElrien De Villiers
- BridgeIna Sireteanu
- BridgeNeuza Silva
- 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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