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
Anna Bondar
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 6 meetings60May 24, 2010 — June 27, 2016View Serena Williams × Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova →02 BridgeOpen career →Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
1 meeting10January 17, 2022View Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova × Anna Bondar →03 DestinationOpen career →Anna Bondar
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
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- DestinationAnna Bondar
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgePetra Kvitova
- DestinationAnna Bondar
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKristina Mladenovic
- DestinationAnna Bondar
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAjla Tomljanovic
- DestinationAnna Bondar
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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