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
Maria Ines Deheza
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 1 meeting10August 29, 2005View Serena Williams × Catalina Castano →02 BridgeOpen career →Catalina Castano
1 meeting01February 5, 2011View Catalina Castano × Florencia Molinero →03 BridgeOpen career →Florencia Molinero
1 meeting10February 2, 2011View Florencia Molinero × Maria Ines Deheza →04 DestinationOpen career →Maria Ines Deheza
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- DestinationMaria Ines Deheza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSofia Arvidsson
- BridgeFlorencia Molinero
- DestinationMaria Ines Deheza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- BridgePatricia Ku Flores
- DestinationMaria Ines Deheza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAleksandra Wozniak
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- DestinationMaria Ines Deheza
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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