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
May Emara
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 1 meeting10March 3, 2008View Serena Williams × Tzipi Obziler →02 BridgeOpen career →Tzipi Obziler
1 meeting10April 24, 2001View Tzipi Obziler × Desislava Topalova →03 BridgeOpen career →Desislava Topalova
1 meeting10April 20, 1999View Desislava Topalova × Kirsi Lampinen →04 BridgeOpen career →Kirsi Lampinen
1 meeting10May 6, 1998View Kirsi Lampinen × May Emara →05 DestinationOpen career →May Emara
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
- BridgeLaurence Courtois
- BridgeHila Rosen
- BridgeKirsi Lampinen
- DestinationMay Emara
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnca Barna
- BridgeHila Rosen
- BridgeKirsi Lampinen
- DestinationMay Emara
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeElena Dementieva
- BridgeHila Rosen
- BridgeKirsi Lampinen
- DestinationMay Emara
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnna Kournikova
- BridgeHila Rosen
- BridgeKirsi Lampinen
- DestinationMay Emara
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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