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
Fabienne Gmeiner
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 meeting01May 7, 1998View Fabienne Gmeiner × Hanna Katri Aalto →02 BridgeOpen career →Hanna Katri Aalto
1 meeting01April 20, 1999View Hanna Katri Aalto × Pavlina Nola →03 BridgeOpen career →Pavlina Nola
2 meetings02August 31, 1998 — March 21, 2001View Pavlina Nola × Serena Williams →04 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginFabienne Gmeiner
- BridgeBiljana Trpeska
- BridgeDally Randriantefy
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginFabienne Gmeiner
- BridgeHelen Asciak
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- 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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