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
Penelope Abreu
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 meeting01February 3, 2016View Penelope Abreu × Kirsten Andrea Weedon →02 BridgeOpen career →Kirsten Andrea Weedon
1 meeting01April 20, 2010View Kirsten Andrea Weedon × Alejandra Granillo →03 BridgeOpen career →Alejandra Granillo
1 meeting01February 22, 2010View Alejandra Granillo × Kaia Kanepi →04 BridgeOpen career →Kaia Kanepi
5 meetings05March 24, 2008 — August 27, 2018View Kaia Kanepi × 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.
- OriginPenelope Abreu
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeAndrea Gamiz
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPenelope Abreu
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeAndrea Gamiz
- BridgeMathilde Johansson
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPenelope Abreu
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeAndrea Gamiz
- BridgeTsvetana Pironkova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginPenelope Abreu
- BridgeKirsten Andrea Weedon
- BridgeAndrea Gamiz
- BridgeElena Rybakina
- 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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