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
Divya Merchant
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 meetings31January 19, 1998 — May 3, 1999View Serena Williams × Irina Spirlea →02 BridgeOpen career →Irina Spirlea
1 meeting01July 19, 1991View Irina Spirlea × Suvimol Duangchan →03 BridgeOpen career →Suvimol Duangchan
1 meeting10July 20, 1991View Suvimol Duangchan × Divya Merchant →04 DestinationOpen career →Divya Merchant
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
- BridgeIrina Spirlea
- BridgeRita Pichardo
- DestinationDivya Merchant
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEvie Dominikovic
- BridgeSuvimol Duangchan
- DestinationDivya Merchant
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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