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
Mika Buchnik
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 11, 2023View Mika Buchnik × Valentini Grammatikopoulou →02Open career → 1 meeting01January 6, 2021View Valentini Grammatikopoulou × Alize Cornet →03 BridgeOpen career →Alize Cornet
7 meetings34April 14, 2008 — August 8, 2016View Alize Cornet × 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.
- OriginMika Buchnik
- BridgeAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMika Buchnik
- BridgeSabine Lisicki
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMika Buchnik
- BridgeJohanna Larsson
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginMika Buchnik
- BridgeDaria Saville
- 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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