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
Monica Malinen
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 2 meetings02January 8, 2007 — August 10, 2009View Serena Williams × Sybille Bammer →02 BridgeOpen career →Sybille Bammer
1 meeting10February 5, 2010View Sybille Bammer × Ema Burgic →03 BridgeOpen career →Ema Burgic
1 meeting01April 16, 2016View Ema Burgic × Emilie Francati →04 BridgeOpen career →Emilie Francati
1 meeting10April 14, 2016View Emilie Francati × Monica Malinen →05 DestinationOpen career →Monica Malinen
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
- BridgeTamira Paszek
- BridgePaulina Bakaite
- BridgeEmilie Francati
- DestinationMonica Malinen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAngelique Kerber
- BridgeCornelia Lister
- BridgeEmilie Francati
- DestinationMonica Malinen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJohanna Larsson
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeEmilie Francati
- DestinationMonica Malinen
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeNina Stojanovic
- BridgeEleonora Molinaro
- BridgeEmilie Francati
- DestinationMonica Malinen
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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