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
Ntswaki Mawela
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 1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Serena Williams × Silvija Talaja →02 BridgeOpen career →Silvija Talaja
2 meetings02April 8, 2002 — January 13, 2003View Silvija Talaja × Petra Mandula →03 BridgeOpen career →Petra Mandula
1 meeting10April 28, 1999View Petra Mandula × Ntswaki Mawela →04 DestinationOpen career →Ntswaki Mawela
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
- BridgeAlicia Molik
- BridgePetra Mandula
- DestinationNtswaki Mawela
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgePetra Mandula
- DestinationNtswaki Mawela
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRita Grande
- BridgePetra Mandula
- DestinationNtswaki Mawela
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- BridgePetra Mandula
- DestinationNtswaki Mawela
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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