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 Van Rooyen
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 meetings20March 18, 1999 — June 25, 2007View Serena Williams × Alicia Molik →02 BridgeOpen career →Alicia Molik
4 meetings40March 2, 1998 — September 7, 1998View Alicia Molik × Bryanne Stewart →03 BridgeOpen career →Bryanne Stewart
1 meeting10September 7, 1998View Bryanne Stewart × Lara Van Rooyen →04 DestinationOpen career →Lara Van Rooyen
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
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeTzu Ting Weng
- DestinationLara Van Rooyen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeAyami Takase
- DestinationLara Van Rooyen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeYoshiko Sasano
- DestinationLara Van Rooyen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeAkiko Gunji
- DestinationLara Van Rooyen
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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