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
Valentina Starkova
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 17, 2005View Serena Williams × Sania Mirza →02 BridgeOpen career →Sania Mirza
1 meeting10February 4, 2010View Sania Mirza × Stefanie Tan →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefanie Tan
1 meeting10January 31, 2008View Stefanie Tan × Jenneta Halliyeva →04 BridgeOpen career →Jenneta Halliyeva
1 meeting01January 30, 2008View Jenneta Halliyeva × Valentina Starkova →05 DestinationOpen career →Valentina Starkova
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
- BridgeSania Mirza
- BridgeGurianna Korinihona
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- DestinationValentina Starkova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeYaroslava Shvedova
- BridgeStefanie Tan
- BridgeJenneta Halliyeva
- DestinationValentina Starkova
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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