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
Brenda Coassolo
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting10July 19, 2003View Silvija Talaja × Joana Cortez →03 BridgeOpen career →Joana Cortez
2 meetings20March 3, 2003View Joana Cortez × Erica Biro →04 BridgeOpen career →Erica Biro
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Erica Biro × Brenda Coassolo →05 DestinationOpen career →Brenda Coassolo
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeJoana Cortez
- BridgeErica Biro
- DestinationBrenda Coassolo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTzipi Obziler
- BridgeLiana Gabriela Ungur
- BridgeErica Biro
- DestinationBrenda Coassolo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Kostanic Tosic
- BridgeMaria Fernanda Alves
- BridgeErica Biro
- DestinationBrenda Coassolo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTatiana Panova
- BridgeJoana Cortez
- BridgeErica Biro
- DestinationBrenda Coassolo
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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