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
Maki Arai
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01November 3, 2003View Maki Arai × Ivana Abramovic →02 BridgeOpen career →Ivana Abramovic
1 meeting01September 8, 2003View Ivana Abramovic × Emmanuelle Gagliardi →03 BridgeOpen career →Emmanuelle Gagliardi
1 meeting01June 25, 2001View Emmanuelle Gagliardi × Serena Williams →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMaki Arai
- BridgeIvana Abramovic
- BridgeVirginie Razzano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMaki Arai
- BridgeIvana Abramovic
- BridgeAmelie Mauresmo
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMaki Arai
- BridgeIvana Abramovic
- BridgeCristina Torrens Valero
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMaki Arai
- BridgeIvana Abramovic
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- 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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