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
Sarah Van Emst
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 3 meetings30January 19, 2009 — May 5, 2014View Serena Williams × Shuai Peng →02 BridgeOpen career →Shuai Peng
1 meeting10January 28, 2019View Shuai Peng × Chloe Paquet →03 BridgeOpen career →Chloe Paquet
1 meeting01August 4, 2025View Chloe Paquet × Sarah Van Emst →04 DestinationOpen career →Sarah Van Emst
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
- BridgePauline Parmentier
- BridgeChloe Paquet
- DestinationSarah Van Emst
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- BridgeChloe Paquet
- DestinationSarah Van Emst
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeDominika Cibulkova
- BridgeChloe Paquet
- DestinationSarah Van Emst
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeStefanie Voegele
- BridgeChloe Paquet
- DestinationSarah Van Emst
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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