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
Marina Kojanova
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 25, 2007View Marina Kojanova × Emma Murphy →02 BridgeOpen career →Emma Murphy
1 meeting01April 26, 2007View Emma Murphy × Alise Vaidere →03 BridgeOpen career →Alise Vaidere
1 meeting01April 30, 2005View Alise Vaidere × Monica Niculescu →04 BridgeOpen career →Monica Niculescu
2 meetings02March 9, 2015 — March 23, 2015View Monica Niculescu × 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.
- OriginMarina Kojanova
- BridgeKimberley Cassar
- BridgeFatima El Allami
- BridgeAnne Kremer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarina Kojanova
- BridgeKimberley Cassar
- BridgeFatima El Allami
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarina Kojanova
- BridgeKimberley Cassar
- BridgeFatima El Allami
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarina Kojanova
- BridgeKimberley Cassar
- BridgeFatima El Allami
- BridgeAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- 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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