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
Heini Salonen
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 meeting01April 26, 2008View Heini Salonen × Lamia Essaadi →02 BridgeOpen career →Lamia Essaadi
1 meeting01April 28, 2008View Lamia Essaadi × Arina Rodionova →03 BridgeOpen career →Arina Rodionova
1 meeting10June 6, 2011View Arina Rodionova × Virginie Razzano →04 BridgeOpen career →Virginie Razzano
1 meeting10May 28, 2012View Virginie Razzano × 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.
- OriginHeini Salonen
- BridgeLamia Essaadi
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHeini Salonen
- BridgeLamia Essaadi
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- BridgeVera Zvonareva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHeini Salonen
- BridgeLamia Essaadi
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- BridgeShuai Peng
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginHeini Salonen
- BridgeLamia Essaadi
- BridgeArina Rodionova
- BridgeKateryna Bondarenko
- 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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