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
Lara Escauriza
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 meeting01June 29, 2026View Serena Williams × Maya Joint →02 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting01June 22, 2026View Maya Joint × Emiliana Arango →03 BridgeOpen career →Emiliana Arango
1 meeting10February 7, 2020View Emiliana Arango × Lara Escauriza →04 DestinationOpen career →Lara Escauriza
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
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- DestinationLara Escauriza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVarvara Lepchenko
- BridgeEmiliana Arango
- DestinationLara Escauriza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgeFernanda Contreras Gomez
- DestinationLara Escauriza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- BridgeFernanda Contreras Gomez
- DestinationLara Escauriza
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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