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
Darja Suvirdjonkova
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 4 meetings40March 21, 2016 — January 6, 2020View Serena Williams × Christina Mchale →02 BridgeOpen career →Christina Mchale
1 meeting10February 29, 2016View Christina Mchale × Victoria Rodriguez →03 BridgeOpen career →Victoria Rodriguez
1 meeting10June 16, 2025View Victoria Rodriguez × Darja Suvirdjonkova →04 DestinationOpen career →Darja Suvirdjonkova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAjla Tomljanovic
- BridgeVictoria Rodriguez
- DestinationDarja Suvirdjonkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMargarita Gasparyan
- BridgeVictoria Rodriguez
- DestinationDarja Suvirdjonkova
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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