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
Neus Avila Bonastre
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 meeting01April 3, 1995View Neus Avila Bonastre × Irina Spirlea →02 BridgeOpen career →Irina Spirlea
4 meetings13January 19, 1998 — May 3, 1999View Irina Spirlea × 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.
- OriginNeus Avila Bonastre
- BridgeMary Pierce
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNeus Avila Bonastre
- BridgeLarisa Savchenko
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNeus Avila Bonastre
- BridgeInes Gorrochategui
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNeus Avila Bonastre
- BridgeJoannette Kruger
- 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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