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
Olivia Rogowska
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 4 meetings40August 22, 2000 — April 7, 2003View Serena Williams × Jelena Dokic →02 BridgeOpen career →Jelena Dokic
1 meeting01February 27, 2012View Jelena Dokic × Olivia Rogowska →03 DestinationOpen career →Olivia Rogowska
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKimiko Date Krumm
- DestinationOlivia Rogowska
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeStephanie Foretz Gacon
- DestinationOlivia Rogowska
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEleni Daniilidou
- DestinationOlivia Rogowska
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRoberta Vinci
- DestinationOlivia Rogowska
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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