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
Mana Kawamura
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20May 25, 2015 — May 9, 2016View Serena Williams × Anna-Lena Friedsam →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna-Lena Friedsam
1 meeting01June 23, 2025View Anna-Lena Friedsam × Eva Vedder →03 BridgeOpen career →Eva Vedder
1 meeting01June 16, 2025View Eva Vedder × Mana Kawamura →04 DestinationOpen career →Mana Kawamura
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEkaterina Alexandrova
- BridgeEva Vedder
- DestinationMana Kawamura
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeBianca Andreescu
- BridgeEva Vedder
- DestinationMana Kawamura
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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