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 Penkova
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 4 meetings31May 28, 2001 — May 26, 2008View Serena Williams × Katarina Srebotnik →02 BridgeOpen career →Katarina Srebotnik
1 meeting10September 17, 2007View Katarina Srebotnik × Masa Zec Peskiric →03 BridgeOpen career →Masa Zec Peskiric
1 meeting10April 19, 2007View Masa Zec Peskiric × Anett Kaasik →04 BridgeOpen career →Anett Kaasik
1 meeting01April 22, 2005View Anett Kaasik × Maria Penkova →05 DestinationOpen career →Maria Penkova
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
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- BridgeMasa Zec Peskiric
- BridgeAnett Kaasik
- DestinationMaria Penkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnabel Medina Garrigues
- BridgeMasa Zec Peskiric
- BridgeAnett Kaasik
- DestinationMaria Penkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMasa Zec Peskiric
- BridgeAnett Kaasik
- DestinationMaria Penkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKlara Koukalova
- BridgeMasa Zec Peskiric
- BridgeAnett Kaasik
- DestinationMaria Penkova
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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