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
Kajsa Rinaldo Persson
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 12 meetings84August 11, 2008 — September 29, 2014View Serena Williams × Samantha Stosur →02 BridgeOpen career →Samantha Stosur
1 meeting01June 11, 2018View Samantha Stosur × Katie Boulter →03 BridgeOpen career →Katie Boulter
1 meeting10November 10, 2023View Katie Boulter × Kajsa Rinaldo Persson →04 DestinationOpen career →Kajsa Rinaldo Persson
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
- BridgeVera Zvonareva
- BridgeKatie Boulter
- DestinationKajsa Rinaldo Persson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSofia Arvidsson
- BridgeReka Luca Jani
- DestinationKajsa Rinaldo Persson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeJodie Burrage
- DestinationKajsa Rinaldo Persson
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeKatie Boulter
- DestinationKajsa Rinaldo Persson
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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