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
Eden Silva
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 10 meetings73August 22, 2000 — May 14, 2012View Serena Williams × Nadia Petrova →02 BridgeOpen career →Nadia Petrova
1 meeting10May 16, 2011View Nadia Petrova × Rebecca Marino →03 BridgeOpen career →Rebecca Marino
1 meeting10June 6, 2022View Rebecca Marino × Eden Silva →04 DestinationOpen career →Eden Silva
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
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRebecca Marino
- DestinationEden Silva
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJill Craybas
- BridgeRebecca Marino
- DestinationEden Silva
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeGreta Arn
- BridgeRebecca Marino
- DestinationEden Silva
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeFrancesca Schiavone
- BridgeRebecca Marino
- DestinationEden Silva
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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