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
Diana Espinal
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 25, 1998View Serena Williams × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting10April 26, 2003View Jana Nejedly × Marcela Ivon Rodezno Hernandez →03Open career → 1 meeting10May 17, 2002View Marcela Ivon Rodezno Hernandez × Diana Espinal →04 DestinationOpen career →Diana Espinal
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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