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
Lucrezia Stefanini
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 5 meetings50March 24, 2008 — August 27, 2018View Serena Williams × Kaia Kanepi →02 BridgeOpen career →Kaia Kanepi
1 meeting10July 31, 2023View Kaia Kanepi × Lucrezia Stefanini →03 DestinationOpen career →Lucrezia Stefanini
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
- BridgeSloane Stephens
- DestinationLucrezia Stefanini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMandy Minella
- DestinationLucrezia Stefanini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLaura Siegemund
- DestinationLucrezia Stefanini
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeViktoriya Tomova
- DestinationLucrezia Stefanini
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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