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
Sandrella Droubi
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 meeting10February 21, 1998View Sandrella Droubi × Salima Esmat Salman →02 BridgeOpen career →Salima Esmat Salman
1 meeting01April 27, 2000View Salima Esmat Salman × Tagifano Soonalole →03 BridgeOpen career →Tagifano Soonalole
1 meeting01September 10, 2001View Tagifano Soonalole × Lilia Osterloh →04 BridgeOpen career →Lilia Osterloh
2 meetings02January 7, 2001 — March 18, 2002View Lilia Osterloh × Serena Williams →05 DestinationOpen career →Serena Williams
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSandrella Droubi
- BridgeSalima Esmat Salman
- BridgeTagifano Soonalole
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSandrella Droubi
- BridgeSalima Esmat Salman
- BridgeArchana Reddy
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- 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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