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
Tess Sugnaux
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 7 meetings43April 14, 2008 — August 8, 2016View Serena Williams × Alize Cornet →02 BridgeOpen career →Alize Cornet
4 meetings22July 15, 2019 — October 16, 2023View Alize Cornet × Jasmine Paolini →03 BridgeOpen career →Jasmine Paolini
1 meeting10July 15, 2019View Jasmine Paolini × Tess Sugnaux →04 DestinationOpen career →Tess Sugnaux
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
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeJasmine Paolini
- DestinationTess Sugnaux
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- BridgeLucia Bronzetti
- DestinationTess Sugnaux
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYaroslava Shvedova
- BridgeJasmine Paolini
- DestinationTess Sugnaux
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAndrea Petkovic
- BridgeJasmine Paolini
- DestinationTess Sugnaux
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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