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
Karolina Sadaj
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 meeting01March 4, 2000View Karolina Sadaj × Giselle Swart →02 BridgeOpen career →Giselle Swart
2 meetings11March 4, 2000View Giselle Swart × Cindy Watson →03 BridgeOpen career →Cindy Watson
1 meeting01March 2, 1998View Cindy Watson × Alicia Molik →04 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
2 meetings02March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Alicia Molik × 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.
- OriginKarolina Sadaj
- BridgeGiselle Swart
- BridgeCindy Watson
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKarolina Sadaj
- BridgeGiselle Swart
- BridgeCindy Watson
- BridgeAmanda Grahame
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKarolina Sadaj
- BridgeGiselle Swart
- BridgeCindy Watson
- BridgeChanda Rubin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginKarolina Sadaj
- BridgeGiselle Swart
- BridgeCindy Watson
- BridgeCara Black
- 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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