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
Lyndsay Reilly
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 3, 2003View Lyndsay Reilly × Erika Clarke Magana →02 BridgeOpen career →Erika Clarke Magana
1 meeting01April 21, 2007View Erika Clarke Magana × Viky Nunez Fuentes →03 BridgeOpen career →Viky Nunez Fuentes
1 meeting01February 16, 2009View Viky Nunez Fuentes × Arantxa Parra Santonja →04 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Parra Santonja
1 meeting01July 19, 2004View Arantxa Parra Santonja × 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.
- OriginLyndsay Reilly
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLyndsay Reilly
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeElena Likhovtseva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLyndsay Reilly
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginLyndsay Reilly
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeZsofia Gubacsi
- 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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