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
Blanka Kumbarova
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 meetings41November 3, 1997 — March 23, 2005View Serena Williams × Elena Likhovtseva →02 BridgeOpen career →Elena Likhovtseva
1 meeting10May 10, 1999View Elena Likhovtseva × Germana Di Natale →03 BridgeOpen career →Germana Di Natale
1 meeting10July 27, 1998View Germana Di Natale × Blanka Kumbarova →04 DestinationOpen career →Blanka Kumbarova
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
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- DestinationBlanka Kumbarova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMary Pierce
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- DestinationBlanka Kumbarova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJanette Husarova
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- DestinationBlanka Kumbarova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeIva Majoli
- BridgeGermana Di Natale
- DestinationBlanka Kumbarova
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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