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
Gaobolae Seleka
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 11, 1995View Gaobolae Seleka × Ruta Deduraite →02 BridgeOpen career →Ruta Deduraite
1 meeting01March 30, 1996View Ruta Deduraite × Anna Smashnova →03 BridgeOpen career →Anna Smashnova
2 meetings02May 6, 2002 — November 6, 2002View Anna Smashnova × 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.
- OriginGaobolae Seleka
- BridgeStela Penciu
- BridgeDominique Monami
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginGaobolae Seleka
- BridgeLisa Camenzuli
- 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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