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
Vera Lapko
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10January 2, 2017View Serena Williams × Pauline Parmentier →02 BridgeOpen career →Pauline Parmentier
1 meeting01October 15, 2018View Pauline Parmentier × Vera Lapko →03 DestinationOpen career →Vera Lapko
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeAlize Cornet
- DestinationVera Lapko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKateryna Bondarenko
- DestinationVera Lapko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVania King
- DestinationVera Lapko
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeVictoria Azarenka
- DestinationVera Lapko
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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