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
Rakel Petursdottir
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 meetings20May 6, 2002 — November 6, 2002View Serena Williams × Anna Smashnova →02 BridgeOpen career →Anna Smashnova
1 meeting10April 25, 2002View Anna Smashnova × Mervana Jugic Salkic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mervana Jugic Salkic
1 meeting10May 8, 1998View Mervana Jugic Salkic × Rakel Petursdottir →04 DestinationOpen career →Rakel Petursdottir
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
- BridgeAnna Smashnova
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationRakel Petursdottir
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeConchita Martinez
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- DestinationRakel Petursdottir
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMagdalena Maleeva
- BridgeMargalita Chakhnashvili
- DestinationRakel Petursdottir
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeEmilie Loit
- BridgeMervana Jugic Salkic
- DestinationRakel Petursdottir
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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