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
Halla Alajeely
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 2 meetings20March 21, 2001 — March 19, 2003View Serena Williams × Iroda Tulyaganova →02 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
1 meeting01April 17, 2007View Iroda Tulyaganova × Wing Yau Venise Chan →03 BridgeOpen career →Wing Yau Venise Chan
1 meeting10February 3, 2012View Wing Yau Venise Chan × Inna Volkovich →04 BridgeOpen career →Inna Volkovich
1 meeting10February 5, 2014View Inna Volkovich × Halla Alajeely →05 DestinationOpen career →Halla Alajeely
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
- BridgeMarion Bartoli
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- BridgeInna Volkovich
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeJawairiah Noordin
- BridgeNethmi Himashi Waduge
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeStefanie Tan
- BridgeNethmi Himashi Waduge
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYung Jan Chan
- BridgeHo Ching Wu
- BridgeJahana Bayramova
- DestinationHalla Alajeely
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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