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
Ewa Zerdecka
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 meeting01December 4, 1988View Ewa Zerdecka × Ilana Berger →02 BridgeOpen career →Ilana Berger
1 meeting01July 21, 1990View Ilana Berger × Conchita Martinez →03 BridgeOpen career →Conchita Martinez
5 meetings05May 4, 1998 — May 12, 2003View Conchita Martinez × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEwa Zerdecka
- BridgeIlana Berger
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginEwa Zerdecka
- BridgeSiobhan Nicholson
- BridgeSabine Appelmans
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginEwa Zerdecka
- BridgeSiobhan Nicholson
- BridgeAnne Kremer
- 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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