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
Ashvarya Shrivastava
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 1 meeting10June 24, 2013View Serena Williams × Kimiko Date Krumm →02 BridgeOpen career →Kimiko Date Krumm
1 meeting10February 6, 2012View Kimiko Date Krumm × Nicha Lertpitaksinchai →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
1 meeting10January 31, 2011View Nicha Lertpitaksinchai × Ashvarya Shrivastava →04 DestinationOpen career →Ashvarya Shrivastava
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
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeNicha Lertpitaksinchai
- DestinationAshvarya Shrivastava
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeGalina Voskoboeva
- BridgeNicha Lertpitaksinchai
- DestinationAshvarya Shrivastava
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeElena Vesnina
- BridgeNicha Lertpitaksinchai
- DestinationAshvarya Shrivastava
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- BridgeTing Fei Juan
- DestinationAshvarya Shrivastava
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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