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
Renata Ljukovcan
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 1 meeting10January 15, 2007View Serena Williams × Anne Kremer →02 BridgeOpen career →Anne Kremer
1 meeting10May 12, 1993View Anne Kremer × Edita Liachoviciute →03 BridgeOpen career →Edita Liachoviciute
1 meeting10March 30, 2000View Edita Liachoviciute × Pavlina Akritas →04 BridgeOpen career →Pavlina Akritas
1 meeting01March 29, 2000View Pavlina Akritas × Renata Ljukovcan →05 DestinationOpen career →Renata Ljukovcan
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeZsofia Gubacsi
- BridgeDalia El Sheikh
- BridgePavlina Akritas
- DestinationRenata Ljukovcan
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJelena Jankovic
- BridgeEdita Liachoviciute
- BridgePavlina Akritas
- DestinationRenata Ljukovcan
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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