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
Asha Jaja
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting10September 19, 2000View Silvija Talaja × Neyssa Etienne →03 BridgeOpen career →Neyssa Etienne
1 meeting10April 27, 1998View Neyssa Etienne × Luisa Elfride Lopez →04 BridgeOpen career →Luisa Elfride Lopez
1 meeting10May 9, 2000View Luisa Elfride Lopez × Asha Jaja →05 DestinationOpen career →Asha Jaja
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeLarissa Schaerer
- BridgeLuisa Elfride Lopez
- DestinationAsha Jaja
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeJessica Fernandez
- BridgeIsoke Perry
- DestinationAsha Jaja
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeJessica Fernandez
- BridgeLuisa Elfride Lopez
- DestinationAsha Jaja
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeDaniela Olivera
- BridgeLuisa Elfride Lopez
- DestinationAsha Jaja
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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