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
Briana Szabo
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 meetings30December 31, 2012 — August 25, 2014View Serena Williams × Varvara Lepchenko →02 BridgeOpen career →Varvara Lepchenko
1 meeting01November 25, 2024View Varvara Lepchenko × Katarzyna Kawa →03 BridgeOpen career →Katarzyna Kawa
1 meeting10August 2, 2021View Katarzyna Kawa × Briana Szabo →04 DestinationOpen career →Briana Szabo
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
- BridgeAnastasija Sevastova
- BridgeKatarzyna Kawa
- DestinationBriana Szabo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVitalia Diatchenko
- BridgeKatarzyna Kawa
- DestinationBriana Szabo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeIrina-Camelia Begu
- BridgeKatarzyna Kawa
- DestinationBriana Szabo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKristyna Pliskova
- BridgeKatarzyna Kawa
- DestinationBriana Szabo
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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