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
Bianca Gorbea
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 5 meetings50August 31, 1998 — September 16, 2002View Serena Williams × Nicole Pratt →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicole Pratt
1 meeting01February 26, 2007View Nicole Pratt × Melissa Torres Sandoval →03 BridgeOpen career →Melissa Torres Sandoval
1 meeting10April 22, 2004View Melissa Torres Sandoval × Bianca Gorbea →04 DestinationOpen career →Bianca Gorbea
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
- BridgeMeghann Shaughnessy
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- DestinationBianca Gorbea
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMariana Diaz Oliva
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- DestinationBianca Gorbea
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- DestinationBianca Gorbea
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMaria Elena Camerin
- BridgeMelissa Torres Sandoval
- DestinationBianca Gorbea
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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