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
Samira Takourabet
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 meeting10May 5, 1998View Samira Takourabet × Stephanie Kamberi →02 BridgeOpen career →Stephanie Kamberi
1 meeting01April 28, 1999View Stephanie Kamberi × Bahia Mouhtassine →03 BridgeOpen career →Bahia Mouhtassine
1 meeting01February 11, 2002View Bahia Mouhtassine × Alicia Molik →04 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
2 meetings02March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Alicia Molik × 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.
- OriginSamira Takourabet
- BridgeStephanie Kamberi
- BridgeBahia Mouhtassine
- BridgeRita Grande
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSamira Takourabet
- BridgeStephanie Kamberi
- BridgeBahia Mouhtassine
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSamira Takourabet
- BridgeStephanie Kamberi
- BridgeBahia Mouhtassine
- BridgeBarbara Schett
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSamira Takourabet
- BridgeStephanie Kamberi
- BridgeBahia Mouhtassine
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- 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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