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
Serena Williams
reaches
Ahsha Rolle
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 3 meetings21January 6, 2002 — August 7, 2006View Serena Williams × Meghann Shaughnessy →02 BridgeOpen career →Meghann Shaughnessy
1 meeting01March 5, 2007View Meghann Shaughnessy × Ahsha Rolle →03 DestinationOpen career →Ahsha Rolle
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeStephanie Foretz Gacon
- DestinationAhsha Rolle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnabel Medina Garrigues
- DestinationAhsha Rolle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- DestinationAhsha Rolle
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSvetlana Kuznetsova
- DestinationAhsha Rolle
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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