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 Jose Lopez Herrera
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 3 meetings30January 11, 1998 — January 16, 2017View Serena Williams × Mirjana Lucic →02 BridgeOpen career →Mirjana Lucic
1 meeting10May 28, 2001View Mirjana Lucic × Eva Bes Ostariz →03 BridgeOpen career →Eva Bes Ostariz
1 meeting10February 25, 2002View Eva Bes Ostariz × Maria Jose Lopez Herrera →04 DestinationOpen career →Maria Jose Lopez Herrera
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
- BridgeJustine Henin
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgeMarta Domachowska
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSandrine Testud
- BridgeEva Bes Ostariz
- DestinationMaria Jose Lopez Herrera
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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