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
Belen Rivera
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 meeting10August 29, 2005View Serena Williams × Catalina Castano →02 BridgeOpen career →Catalina Castano
1 meeting10February 1, 2012View Catalina Castano × Montserrat Gonzalez →03 BridgeOpen career →Montserrat Gonzalez
1 meeting10January 30, 2012View Montserrat Gonzalez × Belen Rivera →04 DestinationOpen career →Belen Rivera
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
- BridgeAna Ivanovic
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationBelen Rivera
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLourdes Dominguez Lino
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationBelen Rivera
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKarolina Pliskova
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationBelen Rivera
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMaria Irigoyen
- BridgeMontserrat Gonzalez
- DestinationBelen Rivera
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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