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
Janelle Watson
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 meeting01May 2, 1998View Janelle Watson × Daniela Alvarez →02 BridgeOpen career →Daniela Alvarez
1 meeting01February 27, 1999View Daniela Alvarez × Cecilia Guillenea →03 BridgeOpen career →Cecilia Guillenea
1 meeting01April 25, 2000View Cecilia Guillenea × Milagros Sequera →04 BridgeOpen career →Milagros Sequera
2 meetings02May 28, 2007 — June 25, 2007View Milagros Sequera × 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.
- OriginJanelle Watson
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJanelle Watson
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJanelle Watson
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeMari Toro
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJanelle Watson
- BridgeDaniela Alvarez
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- 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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