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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
Ana Gasparyan
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10March 3, 2008View Serena Williams × Tzipi Obziler →02 BridgeOpen career →Tzipi Obziler
1 meeting10April 21, 2003View Tzipi Obziler × Katarina Misic →03 BridgeOpen career →Katarina Misic
1 meeting10March 30, 2000View Katarina Misic × Ana Gasparyan →04 DestinationOpen career →Ana Gasparyan
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
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationAna Gasparyan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationAna Gasparyan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeZsofia Gubacsi
- BridgeDalia El Sheikh
- DestinationAna Gasparyan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Jankovic
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationAna Gasparyan
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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