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
Merve Asimgil
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 meeting01April 26, 2002View Merve Asimgil × Joanna Sakowicz Kostecka →02 BridgeOpen career →Joanna Sakowicz Kostecka
1 meeting10July 21, 2002View Joanna Sakowicz Kostecka × Cristina Torrens Valero →03 BridgeOpen career →Cristina Torrens Valero
1 meeting01June 26, 2000View Cristina Torrens Valero × 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.
- OriginMerve Asimgil
- BridgeJoanna Sakowicz Kostecka
- BridgeKveta Peschke
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMerve Asimgil
- BridgeJoanna Sakowicz Kostecka
- BridgeAnne Kremer
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMerve Asimgil
- BridgeJoanna Sakowicz Kostecka
- BridgeElena Bovina
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMerve Asimgil
- BridgeJoanna Sakowicz Kostecka
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- 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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