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
Azra Resic
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 meetings30August 13, 2001 — May 26, 2003View Serena Williams × Barbara Schett →02 BridgeOpen career →Barbara Schett
1 meeting10July 9, 2001View Barbara Schett × Eva Dyrberg →03 BridgeOpen career →Eva Dyrberg
1 meeting10March 31, 2000View Eva Dyrberg × Azra Resic →04 DestinationOpen career →Azra Resic
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
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- BridgeEva Dyrberg
- DestinationAzra Resic
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeEva Dyrberg
- DestinationAzra Resic
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeDenisa Chladkova
- BridgeEva Dyrberg
- DestinationAzra Resic
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeEva Dyrberg
- DestinationAzra Resic
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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