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
Gerda Zykute
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 meeting01April 16, 2016View Gerda Zykute × Barbara Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Haas
1 meeting01July 15, 2019View Barbara Haas × Samantha Stosur →03 BridgeOpen career →Samantha Stosur
12 meetings48August 11, 2008 — September 29, 2014View Samantha Stosur × 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.
- OriginGerda Zykute
- BridgeBarbara Haas
- BridgeBarbora Strycova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginGerda Zykute
- BridgeBarbara Haas
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginGerda Zykute
- BridgeBarbara Haas
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginGerda Zykute
- BridgeBarbara Haas
- BridgeAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- 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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