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
Yaroslava Bartashevich
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 meetings30August 25, 2008 — March 7, 2016View Serena Williams × Kateryna Bondarenko →02 BridgeOpen career →Kateryna Bondarenko
1 meeting10April 23, 2018View Kateryna Bondarenko × Ipek Oz →03 BridgeOpen career →Ipek Oz
1 meeting01February 24, 2025View Ipek Oz × Yaroslava Bartashevich →04 DestinationOpen career →Yaroslava Bartashevich
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
- BridgeIpek Oz
- DestinationYaroslava Bartashevich
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMadison Brengle
- BridgeIpek Oz
- DestinationYaroslava Bartashevich
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeArantxa Rus
- BridgeIpek Oz
- DestinationYaroslava Bartashevich
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeLesia Tsurenko
- BridgeAndreea Prisacariu
- DestinationYaroslava Bartashevich
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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