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
Courtenay Chapman
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 4 meetings31May 28, 2001 — May 26, 2008View Serena Williams × Katarina Srebotnik →02 BridgeOpen career →Katarina Srebotnik
2 meetings20April 5, 1999 — May 27, 2002View Katarina Srebotnik × Conchita Martinez Granados →03Open career → 1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Conchita Martinez Granados × Nadine Schlotterer →04 BridgeOpen career →Nadine Schlotterer
1 meeting10March 5, 2001View Nadine Schlotterer × Courtenay Chapman →05 DestinationOpen career →Courtenay Chapman
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
- BridgeEmmanuelle Gagliardi
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMagui Serna
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMaria Sanchez Lorenzo
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNicole Pratt
- BridgeNadine Schlotterer
- DestinationCourtenay Chapman
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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