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
Lyndsay Reilly
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 meeting10June 25, 2001View Serena Williams × Emmanuelle Gagliardi →02 BridgeOpen career →Emmanuelle Gagliardi
1 meeting01September 19, 2005View Emmanuelle Gagliardi × Vilmarie Castellvi →03 BridgeOpen career →Vilmarie Castellvi
1 meeting10April 22, 2006View Vilmarie Castellvi × Erika Clarke Magana →04 BridgeOpen career →Erika Clarke Magana
1 meeting10March 3, 2003View Erika Clarke Magana × Lyndsay Reilly →05 DestinationOpen career →Lyndsay Reilly
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
- BridgeElena Likhovtseva
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- DestinationLyndsay Reilly
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- DestinationLyndsay Reilly
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- DestinationLyndsay Reilly
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeZsofia Gubacsi
- BridgeVilmarie Castellvi
- BridgeErika Clarke Magana
- DestinationLyndsay Reilly
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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