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
Celia Anson Sanchez
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 23 meetings185January 14, 2008 — August 31, 2020View Serena Williams × Victoria Azarenka →02 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Azarenka
1 meeting10March 5, 2025View Victoria Azarenka × Clervie Ngounoue →03 BridgeOpen career →Clervie Ngounoue
1 meeting10June 23, 2025View Clervie Ngounoue × Melisa Ercan →04 BridgeOpen career →Melisa Ercan
1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Melisa Ercan × Celia Anson Sanchez →05 DestinationOpen career →Celia Anson Sanchez
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
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- DestinationCelia Anson Sanchez
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMandy Minella
- BridgeSandra Samir
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- DestinationCelia Anson Sanchez
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeZarina Diyas
- BridgeDiletta Cherubini
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- DestinationCelia Anson Sanchez
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeDaria Saville
- BridgeClervie Ngounoue
- BridgeMelisa Ercan
- DestinationCelia Anson Sanchez
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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