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
Lidia Encheva
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 meeting01June 29, 2026View Serena Williams × Maya Joint →02 BridgeOpen career →Maya Joint
1 meeting10July 20, 2026View Maya Joint × Laura Samson →03 BridgeOpen career →Laura Samson
1 meeting10September 22, 2025View Laura Samson × Elizara Yaneva →04 BridgeOpen career →Elizara Yaneva
1 meeting10September 15, 2025View Elizara Yaneva × Lidia Encheva →05 DestinationOpen career →Lidia Encheva
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
- BridgeVarvara Lepchenko
- BridgeLea Boskovic
- BridgeElizara Yaneva
- DestinationLidia Encheva
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVarvara Lepchenko
- BridgeLia Karatancheva
- BridgeGeorgia Andreea Craciun
- DestinationLidia Encheva
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKaterina Siniakova
- BridgeLaura Samson
- BridgeElizara Yaneva
- DestinationLidia Encheva
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTatjana Maria
- BridgeLaura Samson
- BridgeElizara Yaneva
- DestinationLidia Encheva
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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