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
Nicole Khirin
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 2 meetings20July 2, 2018 — August 24, 2020View Serena Williams × Arantxa Rus →02 BridgeOpen career →Arantxa Rus
1 meeting10January 1, 2024View Arantxa Rus × Malene Helgo →03 BridgeOpen career →Malene Helgo
1 meeting10April 15, 2022View Malene Helgo × Nicole Khirin →04 DestinationOpen career →Nicole Khirin
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
- BridgeMandy Minella
- BridgeMalene Helgo
- DestinationNicole Khirin
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeCaroline Garcia
- BridgeMalene Helgo
- DestinationNicole Khirin
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRebecca Peterson
- BridgeMalene Helgo
- DestinationNicole Khirin
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKarolina Muchova
- BridgeMalene Helgo
- DestinationNicole Khirin
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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