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
Juliana Jonsdottir
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01May 7, 1997View Juliana Jonsdottir × Zara Wolseley →02 BridgeOpen career →Zara Wolseley
1 meeting01May 6, 1997View Zara Wolseley × Lamia Hameurlaine →03 BridgeOpen career →Lamia Hameurlaine
1 meeting01May 5, 1997View Lamia Hameurlaine × Sandra Nacuk →04 BridgeOpen career →Sandra Nacuk
1 meeting01February 22, 1999View Sandra Nacuk × Martina Hingis →05 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
13 meetings67March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Martina Hingis × Serena Williams →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJuliana Jonsdottir
- BridgeZara Wolseley
- BridgeLamia Hameurlaine
- BridgeSandra Nacuk
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJuliana Jonsdottir
- BridgeZara Wolseley
- BridgeLamia Hameurlaine
- BridgeSandra Nacuk
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJuliana Jonsdottir
- BridgeZara Wolseley
- BridgeLamia Hameurlaine
- BridgeSandra Nacuk
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginJuliana Jonsdottir
- BridgeZara Wolseley
- BridgeLamia Hameurlaine
- BridgeSandra Nacuk
- BridgeArantxa Sanchez Vicario
- 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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