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
Lerissa Maurice
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10May 25, 1998View Serena Williams × Jana Nejedly →02 BridgeOpen career →Jana Nejedly
1 meeting10April 24, 2002View Jana Nejedly × Nikkita Fountain →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikkita Fountain
1 meeting10May 15, 2001View Nikkita Fountain × Lisa Fung Kee Fung →04 BridgeOpen career →Lisa Fung Kee Fung
1 meeting10May 15, 2002View Lisa Fung Kee Fung × Lerissa Maurice →05 DestinationOpen career →Lerissa Maurice
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeLisa Fung Kee Fung
- DestinationLerissa Maurice
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeValentina Castro
- BridgeLisa Fung Kee Fung
- DestinationLerissa Maurice
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- BridgeLisa Fung Kee Fung
- DestinationLerissa Maurice
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMilagros Sequera
- BridgeAndrea Koch Benvenuto
- BridgeLisa Fung Kee Fung
- DestinationLerissa Maurice
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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