Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
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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
Eliza Askarova
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 5 meetings50June 26, 2000 — January 13, 2003View Serena Williams × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10February 1, 2012View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Ayu Fani Damayanti →03 BridgeOpen career →Ayu Fani Damayanti
2 meetings20January 31, 2011 — February 5, 2013View Ayu Fani Damayanti × Ushna Suhail →04 BridgeOpen career →Ushna Suhail
1 meeting10April 18, 2015View Ushna Suhail × Eliza Askarova →05 DestinationOpen career →Eliza Askarova
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Dokic
- BridgeDianne Hollands
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- DestinationEliza Askarova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- DestinationEliza Askarova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- DestinationEliza Askarova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMarion Bartoli
- BridgeAyu Fani Damayanti
- BridgeUshna Suhail
- DestinationEliza Askarova
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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