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
Melisa Ercan
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 meeting01June 23, 2025View Melisa Ercan × Clervie Ngounoue →02 BridgeOpen career →Clervie Ngounoue
1 meeting01March 5, 2025View Clervie Ngounoue × Victoria Azarenka →03 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Azarenka
23 meetings518January 14, 2008 — August 31, 2020View Victoria Azarenka × 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.
- OriginMelisa Ercan
- BridgeClervie Ngounoue
- BridgeDaria Saville
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMelisa Ercan
- BridgeClervie Ngounoue
- BridgeElise Mertens
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMelisa Ercan
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMelisa Ercan
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeMandy Minella
- 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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