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 Ribero
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 meeting10August 7, 2000View Serena Williams × Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie →02 BridgeOpen career →Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie
1 meeting10July 21, 1991View Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie × Belkis Rodriguez →03 BridgeOpen career →Belkis Rodriguez
1 meeting10May 6, 1996View Belkis Rodriguez × Jeanine Baillie →04 BridgeOpen career →Jeanine Baillie
1 meeting01April 30, 1998View Jeanine Baillie × Monica Ribero →05 DestinationOpen career →Monica Ribero
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeGlenny Cepeda
- BridgeJeanine Baillie
- DestinationMonica Ribero
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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