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
Pamela Duran Vinueza
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 14 meetings86August 27, 2001 — January 18, 2010View Serena Williams × Justine Henin →02 BridgeOpen career →Justine Henin
2 meetings20December 31, 2000 — January 7, 2001View Justine Henin × Sonya Jeyaseelan →03 BridgeOpen career →Sonya Jeyaseelan
1 meeting10April 25, 2001View Sonya Jeyaseelan × Sarah Tami Masi →04 BridgeOpen career →Sarah Tami Masi
1 meeting10April 20, 2004View Sarah Tami Masi × Pamela Duran Vinueza →05 DestinationOpen career →Pamela Duran Vinueza
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSilvija Talaja
- BridgeNeyssa Etienne
- BridgeLuisa Elfride Lopez
- DestinationPamela Duran Vinueza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeTamarine Tanasugarn
- BridgeMaria Emilia Salerni
- BridgeSarah Tami Masi
- DestinationPamela Duran Vinueza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKatarina Srebotnik
- BridgeMaria Emilia Salerni
- BridgeSarah Tami Masi
- DestinationPamela Duran Vinueza
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJana Nejedly
- BridgeLarissa Schaerer
- BridgeLuisa Elfride Lopez
- DestinationPamela Duran Vinueza
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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