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
Caroline Oduor
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 meetings50March 23, 2005 — May 24, 2010View Serena Williams × Shahar Peer →02 BridgeOpen career →Shahar Peer
1 meeting10February 13, 2012View Shahar Peer × Nadia Lalami →03 BridgeOpen career →Nadia Lalami
1 meeting10April 17, 2012View Nadia Lalami × Caroline Oduor →04 DestinationOpen career →Caroline Oduor
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
- BridgeMathilde Johansson
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- DestinationCaroline Oduor
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAravane Rezai
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- DestinationCaroline Oduor
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKirsten Flipkens
- BridgeNadia Lalami
- DestinationCaroline Oduor
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKaia Kanepi
- BridgeAni Amiraghyan
- DestinationCaroline Oduor
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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