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
Halla Alajeely
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 5, 2014View Halla Alajeely × Inna Volkovich →02 BridgeOpen career →Inna Volkovich
1 meeting01February 3, 2012View Inna Volkovich × Wing Yau Venise Chan →03 BridgeOpen career →Wing Yau Venise Chan
1 meeting10April 17, 2007View Wing Yau Venise Chan × Iroda Tulyaganova →04 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
2 meetings02March 21, 2001 — March 19, 2003View Iroda Tulyaganova × Serena Williams →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginHalla Alajeely
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeMarion Bartoli
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHalla Alajeely
- BridgeJahana Bayramova
- BridgeHo Ching Wu
- BridgeYung Jan Chan
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHalla Alajeely
- BridgeJahana Bayramova
- BridgeHo Ching Wu
- BridgeZarina Diyas
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHalla Alajeely
- BridgeJahana Bayramova
- BridgePaige Mary Hourigan
- BridgeCaroline Wozniacki
- 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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