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
Lucia Peyre
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 meeting01June 16, 2025View Lucia Peyre × Clara Vlasselaer →02 BridgeOpen career →Clara Vlasselaer
1 meeting01June 23, 2025View Clara Vlasselaer × Francisca Jorge →03 BridgeOpen career →Francisca Jorge
1 meeting01February 7, 2018View Francisca Jorge × Heather Watson →04 BridgeOpen career →Heather Watson
1 meeting01June 29, 2015View Heather Watson × 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.
- OriginLucia Peyre
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- BridgeFrancisca Jorge
- BridgeMandy Minella
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLucia Peyre
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- BridgeHiromi Abe
- BridgeZarina Diyas
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLucia Peyre
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- BridgeAnouk Koevermans
- BridgeMaria Sakkari
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLucia Peyre
- BridgeClara Vlasselaer
- BridgeAnouk Koevermans
- BridgeLisa Pigato
- 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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