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
Evghenia Ablovatchi
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 2 meetings20May 6, 2002 — November 6, 2002View Serena Williams × Anna Smashnova →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Smashnova
1 meeting10April 23, 2003View Anna Smashnova × Margalita Chakhnashvili →03 BridgeOpen career →Margalita Chakhnashvili
1 meeting10May 5, 1998View Margalita Chakhnashvili × Evghenia Ablovatchi →04 DestinationOpen career →Evghenia Ablovatchi
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
- BridgeAmanda Coetzer
- BridgeHelene Holter
- DestinationEvghenia Ablovatchi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLaurence Courtois
- BridgeHila Rosen
- DestinationEvghenia Ablovatchi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationEvghenia Ablovatchi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnca Barna
- BridgeHila Rosen
- DestinationEvghenia Ablovatchi
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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