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
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 13 meetings103May 10, 2004 — June 27, 2016View Serena Williams × Svetlana Kuznetsova →02 BridgeOpen career →Svetlana Kuznetsova
1 meeting01June 28, 2021View Svetlana Kuznetsova × Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove →03 DestinationOpen career →Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- DestinationLesley Pattinama Kerkhove
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- DestinationLesley Pattinama Kerkhove
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- DestinationLesley Pattinama Kerkhove
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSorana Cirstea
- DestinationLesley Pattinama Kerkhove
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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