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
Arina Folts
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 meeting10February 23, 2015View Mirjana Lucic × Maria Teresa Torro Flor →03 BridgeOpen career →Maria Teresa Torro Flor
1 meeting10September 9, 2013View Maria Teresa Torro Flor × Arina Folts →04 DestinationOpen career →Arina Folts
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
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeMaria Teresa Torro Flor
- DestinationArina Folts
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeFrancesca Schiavone
- BridgeMaria Teresa Torro Flor
- DestinationArina Folts
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeDaniela Hantuchova
- BridgeMaria Teresa Torro Flor
- DestinationArina Folts
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMarion Bartoli
- BridgeMaria Teresa Torro Flor
- DestinationArina Folts
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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