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
Karla Umana
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 meeting01April 28, 1998View Karla Umana × Maria Fernanda Carrillo →02 BridgeOpen career →Maria Fernanda Carrillo
1 meeting01May 17, 1997View Maria Fernanda Carrillo × Ana Valeria Rolon →03 BridgeOpen career →Ana Valeria Rolon
1 meeting10May 13, 1997View Ana Valeria Rolon × Richele Le Saldo →04 BridgeOpen career →Richele Le Saldo
1 meeting01April 23, 2008View Richele Le Saldo × Milagros Sequera →05 BridgeOpen career →Milagros Sequera
2 meetings02May 28, 2007 — June 25, 2007View Milagros Sequera × 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.
- OriginKarla Umana
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKarla Umana
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKarla Umana
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKarla Umana
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Carrillo
- BridgeIngrid Gonzalez
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- 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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