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
Krisna Summa
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 2 meetings20January 17, 2000 — February 14, 2000View Serena Williams × Sabine Appelmans →02 BridgeOpen career →Sabine Appelmans
1 meeting10April 22, 1994View Sabine Appelmans × Ismet Duygu Aksit Oal →03 BridgeOpen career →Ismet Duygu Aksit Oal
1 meeting01July 21, 1991View Ismet Duygu Aksit Oal × Krisna Summa →04 DestinationOpen career →Krisna Summa
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
- BridgeLaurence Courtois
- BridgeIsmet Duygu Aksit Oal
- DestinationKrisna Summa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSteffi Graf
- BridgeAmy Jonsson
- DestinationKrisna Summa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeIva Majoli
- BridgeIsmet Duygu Aksit Oal
- DestinationKrisna Summa
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSofia Arvidsson
- BridgeIsmet Duygu Aksit Oal
- DestinationKrisna Summa
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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