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
Marta Kostyuk
reaches
Serena Williams
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01November 9, 2020View Marta Kostyuk × Vera Zvonareva →02 BridgeOpen career →Vera Zvonareva
10 meetings28May 27, 2002 — January 19, 2015View Vera Zvonareva × Serena Williams →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMarta Kostyuk
- BridgeShuai Peng
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarta Kostyuk
- BridgeLucie Safarova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarta Kostyuk
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMarta Kostyuk
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- 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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