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
Nasheli Martinez
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 meeting01March 5, 2001View Nasheli Martinez × Alyssa Cohen →02 BridgeOpen career →Alyssa Cohen
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Alyssa Cohen × Conchita Martinez Granados →03Open career → 2 meetings02April 5, 1999 — May 27, 2002View Conchita Martinez Granados × Katarina Srebotnik →04 BridgeOpen career →Katarina Srebotnik
4 meetings13May 28, 2001 — May 26, 2008View Katarina Srebotnik × 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.
- OriginNasheli Martinez
- BridgeAlyssa Cohen
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNasheli Martinez
- BridgeAlyssa Cohen
- BridgeMagui Serna
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNasheli Martinez
- BridgeAlyssa Cohen
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNasheli Martinez
- BridgeAlyssa Cohen
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- 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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