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
Nicola Corn
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 meeting01March 27, 1996View Nicola Corn × Ipek Senoglu →02 BridgeOpen career →Ipek Senoglu
1 meeting01April 24, 2002View Ipek Senoglu × Anne Kremer →03 BridgeOpen career →Anne Kremer
1 meeting01January 15, 2007View Anne Kremer × 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.
- OriginNicola Corn
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- BridgeMaria Elena Camerin
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNicola Corn
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- BridgeSania Mirza
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNicola Corn
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- BridgeVania King
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginNicola Corn
- BridgeIpek Senoglu
- BridgeOlga Govortsova
- 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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