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
Julia Apostoli
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 3 meetings30January 11, 1998 — January 16, 2017View Serena Williams × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
1 meeting10April 24, 1996View Mirjana Lucic × Emanuela Zardo →03 BridgeOpen career →Emanuela Zardo
1 meeting10September 10, 1990View Emanuela Zardo × Julia Apostoli →04 DestinationOpen career →Julia Apostoli
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeLori Mcneil
- DestinationJulia Apostoli
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLori Mcneil
- DestinationJulia Apostoli
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeLouise Allen
- DestinationJulia Apostoli
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeEmanuela Zardo
- DestinationJulia Apostoli
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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