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
Marina Spakova
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 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
3 meetings21January 7, 2001 — February 3, 2003View Silvija Talaja × Wynne Prakusya →03 BridgeOpen career →Wynne Prakusya
1 meeting10April 22, 2003View Wynne Prakusya × Marina Spakova →04 DestinationOpen career →Marina Spakova
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
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeWynne Prakusya
- DestinationMarina Spakova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeChen Yee Liaw
- DestinationMarina Spakova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgeWynne Prakusya
- DestinationMarina Spakova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- BridgeWynne Prakusya
- DestinationMarina Spakova
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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