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
Kett Sadi
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 meetings21June 23, 2003 — June 20, 2005View Serena Williams × Jill Craybas →02 BridgeOpen career →Jill Craybas
1 meeting10September 20, 2010View Jill Craybas × Ksenia Palkina →03 BridgeOpen career →Ksenia Palkina
1 meeting10February 4, 2010View Ksenia Palkina × Kett Sadi →04 DestinationOpen career →Kett Sadi
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
- BridgeRoberta Vinci
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- DestinationKett Sadi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- DestinationKett Sadi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- DestinationKett Sadi
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeOlga Govortsova
- BridgeKsenia Palkina
- DestinationKett Sadi
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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