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 Glushko
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 4 meetings31May 28, 2001 — May 26, 2008View Serena Williams × Katarina Srebotnik →02 BridgeOpen career →Katarina Srebotnik
1 meeting10February 3, 2010View Katarina Srebotnik × Julia Glushko →03 DestinationOpen career →Julia Glushko
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
- BridgeNadia Petrova
- DestinationJulia Glushko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnne Kremer
- DestinationJulia Glushko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeFrancesca Schiavone
- DestinationJulia Glushko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeDaniela Hantuchova
- DestinationJulia Glushko
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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