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
Nilushi Fernando
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 meetings20March 21, 2001 — March 19, 2003View Serena Williams × Iroda Tulyaganova →02 BridgeOpen career →Iroda Tulyaganova
1 meeting01April 17, 2007View Iroda Tulyaganova × Wing Yau Venise Chan →03 BridgeOpen career →Wing Yau Venise Chan
1 meeting10January 31, 2012View Wing Yau Venise Chan × Nilushi Fernando →04 DestinationOpen career →Nilushi Fernando
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMarion Bartoli
- BridgeWing Yau Venise Chan
- DestinationNilushi Fernando
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeGalina Voskoboeva
- BridgeMadona Najarian
- DestinationNilushi Fernando
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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