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
Jacklyn Lambert
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 17, 2006View Jacklyn Lambert × Veronica Cepede Royg →02 BridgeOpen career →Veronica Cepede Royg
1 meeting01September 8, 2014View Veronica Cepede Royg × Mirjana Lucic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
3 meetings03January 11, 1998 — January 16, 2017View Mirjana Lucic × 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.
- OriginJacklyn Lambert
- BridgeVeronica Cepede Royg
- BridgeVirginie Razzano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJacklyn Lambert
- BridgeVeronica Cepede Royg
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJacklyn Lambert
- BridgeVeronica Cepede Royg
- BridgeRoberta Vinci
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJacklyn Lambert
- BridgeVeronica Cepede Royg
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- 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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