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
Vendula Valdmannova
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 9 meetings72June 24, 2002 — September 30, 2013View Serena Williams × Francesca Schiavone →02 BridgeOpen career →Francesca Schiavone
1 meeting01February 11, 2017View Francesca Schiavone × Rebecca Sramkova →03 BridgeOpen career →Rebecca Sramkova
1 meeting10February 1, 2026View Rebecca Sramkova × Vendula Valdmannova →04 DestinationOpen career →Vendula Valdmannova
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
- BridgeSara Errani
- BridgeRebecca Sramkova
- DestinationVendula Valdmannova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgePetra Kvitova
- BridgeRebecca Sramkova
- DestinationVendula Valdmannova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeShuai Zhang
- BridgeRebecca Sramkova
- DestinationVendula Valdmannova
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAnastasija Sevastova
- BridgeRebecca Sramkova
- DestinationVendula Valdmannova
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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