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
Francesca Di Lorenzo
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 5 meetings50May 24, 2010 — July 1, 2019View Serena Williams × Julia Goerges →02 BridgeOpen career →Julia Goerges
1 meeting10August 26, 2019View Julia Goerges × Francesca Di Lorenzo →03 DestinationOpen career →Francesca Di Lorenzo
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
- BridgeStefanie Voegele
- DestinationFrancesca Di Lorenzo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKristie Ahn
- DestinationFrancesca Di Lorenzo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- DestinationFrancesca Di Lorenzo
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeChristina Mchale
- DestinationFrancesca Di Lorenzo
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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