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
Maria Fagerstrom
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 meeting01April 22, 2008View Maria Fagerstrom × Anna Movsisyan →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Movsisyan
1 meeting01April 23, 2008View Anna Movsisyan × Nadia Lalami →03 BridgeOpen career →Nadia Lalami
1 meeting01February 13, 2012View Nadia Lalami × Shahar Peer →04 BridgeOpen career →Shahar Peer
5 meetings05March 23, 2005 — May 24, 2010View Shahar Peer × 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.
- OriginMaria Fagerstrom
- BridgeAnna Movsisyan
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- BridgeMathilde Johansson
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMaria Fagerstrom
- BridgeAnna Movsisyan
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- BridgeAravane Rezai
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMaria Fagerstrom
- BridgeAnna Movsisyan
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- BridgeKirsten Flipkens
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMaria Fagerstrom
- BridgeAnna Movsisyan
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- BridgeTimea Bacsinszky
- 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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