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
Alyssa Mayo
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 3 meetings30January 11, 1998 — January 16, 2017View Serena Williams × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
1 meeting01August 26, 2013View Mirjana Lucic × Sachia Vickery →03 BridgeOpen career →Sachia Vickery
1 meeting10April 10, 2017View Sachia Vickery × Alyssa Mayo →04 DestinationOpen career →Alyssa Mayo
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- BridgeSachia Vickery
- DestinationAlyssa Mayo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKirsten Flipkens
- BridgeSachia Vickery
- DestinationAlyssa Mayo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYaroslava Shvedova
- BridgeSachia Vickery
- DestinationAlyssa Mayo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAgnieszka Radwanska
- BridgeSachia Vickery
- DestinationAlyssa Mayo
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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