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
Mariana Demichelli Vergara
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
01Open career → 1 meeting10April 22, 2010View Mariana Demichelli Vergara × Caitlin Gordon →02 BridgeOpen career →Caitlin Gordon
1 meeting01April 24, 2008View Caitlin Gordon × Nikkita Fountain →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikkita Fountain
1 meeting01April 24, 2002View Nikkita Fountain × Jana Nejedly →04 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting01May 25, 1998View Jana Nejedly × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- BridgeCaitlin Gordon
- BridgeNikkita Fountain
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- DestinationSerena Williams
- BridgeCaitlin Gordon
- BridgeNikkita Fountain
- BridgeTeliana Pereira
- DestinationSerena Williams
- BridgeCaitlin Gordon
- BridgeJohanna De Leon
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- 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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