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
Juliet Drew
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 14 meetings86August 27, 2001 — January 18, 2010View Serena Williams × Justine Henin →02 BridgeOpen career →Justine Henin
1 meeting10August 25, 2003View Justine Henin × Saori Obata →03 BridgeOpen career →Saori Obata
2 meetings20May 10, 1997View Saori Obata × Juliet Drew →04 DestinationOpen career →Juliet Drew
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
- BridgeJoanne Ward
- DestinationJuliet Drew
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeSaori Obata
- DestinationJuliet Drew
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMadoka Kuki
- DestinationJuliet Drew
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- BridgeSaori Obata
- DestinationJuliet Drew
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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