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
Klaudija Bubelyte
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 1 meeting10May 26, 2003View Serena Williams × Marie Gaiane Mikaelian →02 BridgeOpen career →Marie Gaiane Mikaelian
1 meeting01April 30, 2010View Marie Gaiane Mikaelian × Sofia Shapatava →03 BridgeOpen career →Sofia Shapatava
1 meeting01April 12, 2023View Sofia Shapatava × Klaudija Bubelyte →04 DestinationOpen career →Klaudija Bubelyte
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
- BridgeSvetlana Kuznetsova
- BridgeSofia Shapatava
- DestinationKlaudija Bubelyte
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Jankovic
- BridgeSofia Shapatava
- DestinationKlaudija Bubelyte
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVania King
- BridgeSofia Shapatava
- DestinationKlaudija Bubelyte
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeGalina Voskoboeva
- BridgeSofia Shapatava
- DestinationKlaudija Bubelyte
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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