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
Sara Meghoufel
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 meeting10April 28, 2005View Sara Meghoufel × Puleng Tlhophane →02 BridgeOpen career →Puleng Tlhophane
1 meeting01April 27, 2006View Puleng Tlhophane × Mervana Jugic Salkic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mervana Jugic Salkic
1 meeting01April 25, 2002View Mervana Jugic Salkic × Anna Smashnova →04 BridgeOpen career →Anna Smashnova
2 meetings02May 6, 2002 — November 6, 2002View Anna Smashnova × 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.
- OriginSara Meghoufel
- BridgePuleng Tlhophane
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSara Meghoufel
- BridgePuleng Tlhophane
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSara Meghoufel
- BridgePuleng Tlhophane
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeElena Dementieva
- DestinationSerena Williams
- OriginSara Meghoufel
- BridgePuleng Tlhophane
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- BridgeMarion Bartoli
- 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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