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
Elena-Gabriela Ruse
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 7 meetings43April 14, 2008 — August 8, 2016View Serena Williams × Alize Cornet →02 BridgeOpen career →Alize Cornet
2 meetings20October 6, 2021 — April 24, 2023View Alize Cornet × Elena-Gabriela Ruse →03 DestinationOpen career →Elena-Gabriela Ruse
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAgnieszka Radwanska
- DestinationElena-Gabriela Ruse
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- DestinationElena-Gabriela Ruse
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJulia Goerges
- DestinationElena-Gabriela Ruse
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEvgeniya Rodina
- DestinationElena-Gabriela Ruse
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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