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
Lilli Tagger
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 2 meetings11August 24, 2020 — August 31, 2020View Serena Williams × Maria Sakkari →02 BridgeOpen career →Maria Sakkari
2 meetings20March 4, 2026 — May 5, 2026View Maria Sakkari × Lilli Tagger →03 DestinationOpen career →Lilli Tagger
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- DestinationLilli Tagger
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnastasia Potapova
- DestinationLilli Tagger
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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