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
Cornelia Grunes
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 1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
1 meeting10September 30, 2002View Silvija Talaja × Sarah Taylor →03 BridgeOpen career →Sarah Taylor
1 meeting10September 8, 1997View Sarah Taylor × Cornelia Grunes →04 DestinationOpen career →Cornelia Grunes
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
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeShelley Stephens
- DestinationCornelia Grunes
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeSeiko Okamoto
- DestinationCornelia Grunes
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeAyami Takase
- DestinationCornelia Grunes
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeKeiko Taguchi
- DestinationCornelia Grunes
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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